[plug] Anyone got bash tips for an old korn shell user?

[Mark Haselden]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:11:46PM +0800, Alan Graham wrote:
> The majority of my commercial *nix experience has been on AIX, which
> used to use ksh as the default shell.  No problems there, I find it for
> easier to use than csh, with vi as my editor.
> 
> All versions of linux set up bash as the shell.  I install pdksh
> everywhere I can, which keeps me happy, but I still keep having to use
> bash on other accounts.
> 
> The main problem I have is history.  If I want to find an old command in
> the history with ksh, I just <esc>, /search string, and <n> back through
> all occurrences.  I can even edit it.
> 

Try typing "set -o vi" at the bash prompt.  That should give bash
the behaviour that you want, if I've understood you correctly..

set -o emacs to reverse the mode back to normal

Cheers

Mark


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Being a Unix system administrator is like being a tech in a biological 
warfare laboratory, except that none of the substances are labeled 
consistently, any of the compounds are just as likely to kill you by 
themselves as they are when mixed with one another, and it is never 
clear what distinction is made between a catastrophic failure in the lab 
and a successful test in the field. 

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