On 10/06/2023 01:32, S M wrote:
Is command-line editing part of POSIX, then? Are you suggesting that dash is missing some bit of POSIX compliance? That's possible.On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 08:00:51PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 05:45:04PM -0500, S M wrote:Regarding a workaround, I ended up creating a symlink /usr/local/bin/sh pointing to bash and chsh to that.Why? Why not simply chsh to /bin/bash if that's what you want as your interactive shell? Are you somehow relying on bash's disabling of certain features when invoked as "sh", in interactive mode? I don't understand that at all.Yes. POSIX-compliance is a feature to me. I'd actually be fine with using dash itself but the lack of command line editing and filename completion is a deal-breaker to me.
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