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Old 08-04-2002, 01:31 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally posted by mmilano
i was using the shell and i noticed that tab-completion wasn't working .. i wrote an email late last night asking why. apparently, freebsd uses the bourne shell as it's default. he set me up with a bash shell so tab-completion and history now works.
To clarify, FreeBSD defaults to Bourne shell for regular users and csh for root (which has auto-competion). To change your shell, you would simply run chpass and change shell to /usr/local/bin/bash or whatever suits your mood. (Does Linux have a way for non-root users to change their default shell? I think not.)
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