The Shell Game (was Re: BadHerz VALUE)

[Marc Unangst]

In article <6422 at spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun at spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>	Also, I'm curious as to why the cryptic 'sh' user interface
>	has not been replaced with something hi-tech.  I still miss
>	the DEC-20.  As far as I know, 'ksh' still retains the basic
>	look-and-feel of 'sh', though with an Emacs line editor.

It has.  It's called Bash.  The reason it's not in /bin/sh is because
it would break a great deal of things that rely on /bin/sh behaving
a certain way.  The other reason is that /bin/sh is small, lean,
and relatively fast.  Bash is large, unwieldy, and does strange things
sometimes.  When I'm working with something in single-user mode, I
want to have the shell do what I want it to; I don't want to have to fight
with it.

Bash is also GNUware, which means the chances of SCO distributing it
are little to none.

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