On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Todd Vierling wrote:

> sh needs to be as lean and mean as possible, IMHO.

Bah! If that were the case, we should rip line editing back out
again.

I certainly don't want to see /bin/sh go the way of bash, but I
think it should have the minimal set of modern features. That means
job control, command line editing, and, these days, probably filename
completion too.

cjs

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