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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: FIX: UUCP, !, bash and smail
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:50:39 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211152150.49@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <9211102166@monad.swb.de> <4926TB2w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us>
- Lines: 27
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- In article <4926TB2w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us> bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
- >okir@monad.swb.de (Olaf Kirch) writes:
- >
- >> ludwig@wefunk.rent.com (Mitchel F. Ludwig) writes:
- >> > Error executing
- >> > uux -aroot - bobsbox!rmail '(ludwig)'
- >>
- >> I assume your problem lies with bash. Bash uses ! as its history
- >> character (typing !foobar recalls the last line beginning with
- >> foobar). You can either turn the whole thing off, or edit
- >> smail sources. But beware! I sat over this a whole hour.
- >
- >Bash really pissed me off too --for the same reason. I think linux
- >should have a nondescript plain-jane bourne shell for system level
- >functions. Having to hack sources for os compatibility is one thing,
- >but having to do it for shells is pretty bizarre.
-
- The fact of the matter is that bash, when linked to /bin/sh, is the closest
- thing to AT&T /bin/sh. Ash, pdksh, and others all break on the scripts in
- the Cnews package.
-
- If you are using bash as a command line shell then a simple "set +H" in
- your .profile will turn off the csh history functions.
-
- --
-
- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
-