topic Re: history command ??? in Operating System - HP-UX

history command ???

someone_4 — Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:49:06 GMT

I was reading a post about a history command
history -100 to give you the last 100 commands. How do you set it up? and is it the last 100 command that you type? Or that anyone types?
thanks

Richard

Re: history command ???

Vincenzo Restuccia — Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:58:37 GMT

Check in .profile HISTFILE and HISTSIZE,environnement variables of history.

Re: history command ???

Rob Smith — Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:16:00 GMT

Just to add to the response above, it is the last 100 commnands you type, command history is unique to each user. The variable $HISTFILE contains the commands, usually .sh_history and the variable $HISTSIZE is the number of commands that will be saved. Hope this helps.

Rob

Re: history command ???

Jim Moffitt_1 — Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:37:41 GMT

In your .profile put in the following. YOu can have your HISTSIZE as large as you want. It will be put in your HISTFILE /.sh_history

# Set command history
HISTFILE=/.sh_history
export HISTFILE
HISTSIZE=2000
export HISTSIZE

Re: history command ???

Kevin Wright — Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:28:54 GMT

once you finish setting up your variable HISTFILE, you can access this info using the 'esc k' combo in the Korn and posix shell.
or type in history, and you get a list of the commands you entered.

Re: history command ???

Jaimin Parikh — Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:30:57 GMT

Hi,

Type "set" command to list all vairables known to your current shell.

The variables for your interest are : HISTFILE (It shows the location of history
file .sh_history) and HISTSIZE (it shows how many commands are stored in history file).

Use "history" command to retrieve the commands in history or you can use "Esc-K" key sequence.

It is for your current shell and it's subshell only and not for all users.

Regards,
Jaimin