Re: bash is Bashed!

On Tuesday 15 May 2007 01:05, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> I have run into a strange situation (my workstation at the Mabel T.
> Caverly Senior Center) where bash does not act like, well, bash. Here
> are the symptoms:
>
> Type "set" to see all the environmental variables.
> 1. Regular user: a bash script scrolls ???
> 2. Root: the environmental variables are printed to screen.
> 3. Regular user after typing "sh" to get the old Borne Shell, normal
> results a number 2, above.
>
> I suspect there is a mis-configured something somewhere. Can anyone help?

I would assume what you are seeing are all the functions defined for
bash-completions. Like being able to type svn<TAB> and have a list of
subversion actions pop up; apt-get install kde<TAB> and have a list of all
packages starting with KDE, etc. There are other things like that defined
too.

j

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