[Info-vax] CLI editing, was: Re: VMS - Virtual Terminals - A security risk way back yonder OR was that an Old Wives Tale ?

[Scott Dorsey]

Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>On 2016-02-13 19:43, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Note that with Unix today we have two different kinds of command line editing,
>> one the old method with the bang (supported in csh, bash, and sh but not the
>> same way in all three), and the new method with command recall (supported in
>> bash and tcsh and in SOME newer versions of csh and sh but not all).
>
>sh actually do not support any kind of line recall and editing. Most 
>people nowadays have not even been exposed to sh, and thinks that bash 
>is sh...

There is a fork of Berkelian Bourne Shell with command recall.  It's a new
thing in the last few years.  And yes, bash in sh mode isn't really very 
much like sh at all.  Linux has only bash in sh mode, but bsd still has
real sh.
--scott
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