Re: Create a file with history in sh

["Rocky Hotas" <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost>]

> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at 3:34 PM
> From: "Justin Cormack" <justin%specialbusservice.com@localhost>
> To: "Rocky Hotas" <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost>
> Cc: "Greg Troxel" <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>, 
> netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: Create a file with history in sh
> > - why /bin/sh is intentionally minimalist? Which are its main purposes?
> 
> It is mainly a standards compliant shell for running shell scripts,
> not primarily as an interactive shell, and as a minimal interactive
> shell if the system is in a minimal state (eg in the installer, or if
> something fails), or on very small systems. NetBSD tries to have a
> minimal install that is very small that you then build on.
> 
> > - why do you suggest /bin/sh as default shell for root?
> 
> It is always going to be there as it is part of the base system. bash
> (say) might not be, say if you mess up pkgsrc and break it, then you
> need /bin/sh to recover the situation as root.
> 

So, with a minimal but certainly functioning shell.
Thanks for the answers from you and from the other users.

Rocky