enable History file

[HDgio]

Hello to all
Someone knows like qualifying history file on a shell sh?

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

In your profile, put something similar to this:

HISTFILE=/tmp/.sh_history.$(whoami)
export HISTFILE

Then enable it with "set -o vi"



Pete

[Graham Cameron_1]

This comes up quite often.
See

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=59366

Graham

[Madhu Sudhan_1]

The real Bourne Shell doesn't support history.

-Madhu

[Stefan Farrelly]

We use this;

HISTFILE=${HOME}/.history_files/.hist.`who am i|awk '{print $1}'`.$$.`date +%d%m%y.%H%M`
HISTSIZE=1000

in our .profile so we get a unique history file for each user by date for auditing purposes.

[Pete Randall]

?

[Bill Hassell]

Yes, the Bourne shell does not have a history feature. However, no one uses the Bourne shell because it is located in a very obscure location (/usr/old/bin/sh). Unfortunately, the HP POSIX shell is called sh too so it is easy to be confused by the name. The file /usr/bin/sh (and the archived library file /sbin/sh) are both POSIX shells (like ksh) and have a history file available.

To enable the history file, the env variable HISTFILE (and optionally HISTSIZE) must be set at login. This is best done in /etc/profile for 'normal' logins.

[Madhu Sudhan_1]

Thanks Bill. I couldn't explain it so clear.

Thanks,
Madhu

[Geoff Wild]

Here's a cool thing to do if you have multiple admins who su to root.

In root's .profile, add:

# Set up logging
HISTFILE=${HOME}/.sh_history_`who am i|awk '{ print $1}'`
date >>$HISTFILE
export HISTFILE
HISTSIZE=500
export HISTSIZE

This creates a seperate .sh_history file for each admin - for example, mine is:

.sh_history_gwild

Rgds...Geoff

[HDgio]

After what I've configured the .profile for ebnable a history file, how I can recall a line command ?

es:fc -l
134 pwd
135 ls
136 ll

for recall the ls command?
!ls