Re: Are most DBA jobs on UNIX or Mainframe, not NT?

From: Stephen Harris <sweh_at_mpn.com>
Date: 25 May 1999 06:49:07 GMT
Message-ID: <7idh53$3up$1@nebula.mpn.com>

Bas Scheffers (bas_at_datadesign.nl) wrote:
: the 5% is the anoying 5%, like having to work with a 20 year old shell
: on solaris that doesn't know what commands you typed last and such

So change your shell to ksh which comes with solaris, and you end up with a shell that is 100 times superior to bash. "set -o vi" or "set -o emacs" to enable the appropriate history editing keyset. It may take you some time to get into the habit of "r cmd" instead of "!cmd" but it won't take too long.

/bin/sh is a shell for old script compatability. ksh is a SVR4 standard and a much better command interface _and_ scripting language.

: things. So you'll end up compiling and installing hundreds of utils
: that make life easy on a standard linux distribution yourself.

"perl" is the only real requirement :-)

rgds
Stephen Received on Tue May 25 1999 - 01:49:07 CDT