Importing mksh in base

[Daniel Eischen]

> On Jan 25, 2019, at 6:46 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
> 
> Daniel Eischen wrote on 2019/01/25 21:15:
>>> On Jan 25, 2019, at 2:53 PM, Bruce Evans <brde at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have used /bin/bash as the root shell for more about 20 years.  The
>>> currently install version is slightly newer -- only about 15 years old
>>> (bash-1.14.7(1) installed by mv'ing it from /usr/local/bin where some
>>> port put it.
>> Just picking a recent post to reply to...
>> I've used bash on FreeBSD as the default shell for many years, ever since it became a port.  But I don't change root's shell, because I don't want it pointing off to /usr/local.  If there were a base bash-like shell, I'd use it so long as it had tab completion and up/down arrow for history recall.
> 
> You must be joking. tcsh has tab completion and up / down arrow history recall ... and in my feelings much better than in bash. But it all depends on how you configured it (bash and tcsh can be heavily modified by their rc files).

I didn't say that tcsh didn't have it, just that I'd want mksh to have it.  Also, we mostly standardize on bash for network (ldap, active directory) accounts, so it would be nice to have a default shell that was more like bash.

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