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Bash? Why Not

Reasons for not using bash (very few really)

  * History Search beginning with what had been typed so far is not available
    by default!   In tcsh  escape-p does this.

    In Bash however the default is a stupid,
    non-incremental-reverse-search-history function

    You can make it available with by creating a ".inputrc" file in your home
    containing...
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       #
       # InputRC Command line Editoing  (for bash)
       #
       $include  /etc/inputrc

       # Use the tcsh like history search I am use to
       "\M-p": history-search-backward
       "\M-n": history-search-forward
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    This worked in Bash 3.00.15
    but suddenly started to fail for bash 3.1.7

    Arrrggghhhhh......

    Added this to fix (Found on a tcsh binding page for bash!)
    http://www.adamspiers.org/computing/shells/
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       "\ep": history-search-backward
       "\en": history-search-forward
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Problems which has now been fixed...

  * For some reason bash removes  SSH_CLIENT  from environment.
    This variable is assigned by sshd before calling "-bash".
    For example
      export SSH_CLIENT='127.0.0.2 1027 22'
      bash -norc -c env | grep SSH
    will not display this environment variable!

    This was fixed, and has not been a problem for a long time.

  * The {0..30} Syntax (equivelent to $(seq 0 30) ) for loop counts
    Does not work in the MacOSX version of BASH!  (was too old - now fixed)

    You can not however substitute variables for the numbers :-(

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