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Red Hat Nullifies Differences Between Bash, Csh

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the funny-funny-haha dept.

Andreas(R) writes "Red Hat Software has revealed that future versions of the distribution will hide the differences between command-line user interfaces, creating a 'more unified shell prompt experience'. 'I don't mind if they rebrand and unify the GNOME and KDE interfaces,' said one Linux longhair. 'Frankly, I rarely use GUIs. But when they start messing with my CLI, then it's personal. I'm not going to sit here and let Red Hat infect my beloved tcsh with those annoying quirks from bash." Ah, nothing like satire that only a small group will truly grok. *grin*

3 of 449 comments (clear)

  1. Viper makes me happy by Jason+Earl · · Score: 4, Interesting

    M-x viper-mode.

  2. Re:bash? csh? i give my users... by DragonWyatt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    /bin/false

    It really is much more secure.

    Actually, in some old *nixes, that absolutely was NOT the case. If the shell in /etc/passwd returned a non-zero value (note that /bin/false always returns 1), 'login' would drop them immediately to an emergency shell for 'maintenance'- usually a statically-linked Bourne shell, and sometimes a setuid root version!

    Not that this behavious persists today, but just to be safe, use /bin/true instead ;) .

    --
    Don't sweat the petty things. But do pet the sweaty things.
  3. Can't wait for vimacs by SiliconEntity · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seriously, I often have vi running in the left window and emacs in the right hand one. It's a good mental exercise to switch back and forth between them frequently. I wish I could train myself to use my right hand for emacs and the left for vi, but I'm not there yet. Maybe I could do it with two chord keyboards?