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I explained how to disable readline
In the recent history sh(1) has gain the missing features for it to become a usable interractive shell: - command completion - ... Too much bloat for my tastes.
I'm guessing your alternative is:
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Doesn’t command completion cause a disk scan? Which can be a problem if the system is failing in some way and you’re trying to recover.
Can you not just avoid activating a completion attempt if you are in that scenario?
In the recent history sh(1) has gain the missing features for it to become a usable interractive shell: - command completion - ... Too much bloat for my tastes.
Doesn’t command completion cause a disk scan? Which can be a problem if the system is failing in some way and you’re trying to recover.
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Doesn’t command completion cause a disk scan? Which can be a problem if the system is failing in some way and you’re trying to recover.
unless you're exclusively running shell built-ins, doesn't running any command at all potentially cause a disk scan
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unless you're exclusively running shell built-ins, doesn't running any command at all potentially cause a disk scan
Usually the shell creates a cache of commands on start, which can be refreshed with `hash -r`.
$ hash
hash: hash table emptyI am not a freebsd user, been on linux since 1992, but most of the time I read something about freebsd users and it seems like they want to be some older unix, like Solaris or True64 or something.
GNU and Linux distributions are actually Unix clones, with different distributions mimicking or incorporating code from the various open source and proprietary Unix operating systems. For example, Slackware used to use an rc-style init system like BSD. Linux cgroups (underlying tech like Docker) look very much like Solaris zones. GNU coreutils have POSIX compatibility modes. Systemd looks a lot like Solaris SMF. Stuff like ZFS and DTrace were imported from OpenSolaris. And so on.
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Can you not just avoid activating a completion attempt if you are in that scenario?
I think it is not as easy as you imply, especially if it is bound to muscle memory. Side note: https://www.google.com/search?q=don%27t+say+just
So am I reading correctly that they wanted to use sh for a while, and it just finally got needed features? This message says "what" but not "why", and while as a user I prefer sh over csh:), I'm curious why the project switched.