[TriLUG] Making Solaris "feel" like Linux?

[Roy Vestal]

Since I'm in the same boat, I'll see what I can help you with.

Bash is not part of the default install for Solaris until Solaris 2.8. If 
your systems are not running 2.8, then it's  probably NOT installed on 
your machines. To verify you can try /bin/bash. If not,  you can download 
bash 2.03 and 2.05 for Solaris from http://www.sunfreeware.com . With that 
said, you described that you are not root. 

If you have /bin/csh (c shell), you can do a few things to make the 
command line feel a little like bash. You can map your keystrokes to give 
the feel of bash. You can map <ESC>+k to the up arrow. This will make the 
up arrow show the history. You can map <ESC>+j to the down arrow so you 
can go down through the history. <ESC>+h maps to the left arrow and<ESC>+l 
is he right arrow.  <CTRL>+h can be mapped to the backspace key.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to map the tab key, but you can use the * 
in the path to cd. For example, cd /usr/loc*/bin to cd to /usr/local/bin.

HTH,
Roy

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Geoff Purdy wrote:

> I've been working almost exclusively with Linux at home and
> at work for the past two years.  I recently changed jobs and
> my new employer is a Solaris shop.  Since I've grown
> comfortable with Linux, I'm wondering what I can do to give
> Solaris a similar feel.
> 
> I don't have root on any of the unix systems at work so I'm
> limited in the software I can install (i.e.  I can't install
> XFree86 or GNU ls).
> 
> An obvious first step was to switch my shell to bash. 
> Anyone care to share other tips?  Thanks.
> 
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