solaris 10 keys how to make them work

Question

I am new on Solaris 10. I am using putty to connect to it. I am more used to linux. I am trying to do somethings in Solaris like backspace, upkey to previous commands executed. some posts suggest that i use Bash. well I dont know how to switch from ksh to bash.

another issue is that i am used to have the whole path on my cmd prompt but here i only have $

How can I change this for me. I want to use the up arrow key to view my old commands, I want TAB to give me th directories or files in the working directory and I want to see the whole path of the PWD i am in.

Is there a way

Thanks for the help

Syed...

Answer 1

This should be enough:

PS1='\w $ ' exec bash --noprofile --rcfile /dev/null

Here is what this command is doing:

• PS1='\w $ ' : set the prompt to show your current directory
• exec bash : substitute the currently running shell by bash
• --noprofile --rcfile /dev/null : suppress predefined customizations