Re: Help with xterm and bash
 

Ah. Sorry, our posts overlapped, so my last wasn;t a response to your post #9.

Installing bash is fine. It uses slightly more resources than the default shell, but is so much more functional, you are unlikely to regret it. I don't know if it will run as your default shell, but you should be able to tell from the xterm prompt,

Re: Help with xterm and bash
 

Well done fnordianslip! Good catch!

@vanadium - If you don't need to use some specific bash functions you may as well use #!/bin/sh in your scripts - it'll prevent this sort of thing from happening again if you decide to uninstall bash or it gets uninstalled during an upgrade.