[Info-vax] Suggestion: Enhance DCL to support proper escape quoting.

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Thu Jan 20 13:38:53 EST 2022


On 2022-01-20, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Funny, that.  NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD don't ship with bash
> installed and not offered as one of the default shells in the
> /etc/shells file.  I don't even use bash on Linux.  I haven't
> used Solaris in quite some time but the last time I did it
> was the same. I have used Unix since Version7 and have never
> used a version of Unix that shipped with bash.  Only Linux
> does that.
>

Having recently briefly used the default shell in both NetBSD and
OpenBSD, I can tell you that I would strongly prefer bash as the
default shell on a Unix system instead. :-)

Simon.

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