topic recalling old commands in Operating System - HP-UX

recalling old commands

Chandrahasa s — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:48:36 GMT

Hi Gurus,

Is there any way to recall old commands from other file??
Default when press esc+k old commands will be repeated by reading HISTFILE (file content)variable.
I want to get old command repeat without taking help of HISTFILE.

Chandra

Re: recalling old commands

Hakki Aydin Ucar — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:28:01 GMT

How will you get old commands without assistance of a file like .history recorded old commands ?

Re: recalling old commands

James R. Ferguson — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:31:22 GMT

Hi:

You might try (temporarily) setting 'HISTFILE' to the filename you want to extract. This would at least assume that the alternate file had the same format as the normal history file. I have never tried this.

> I want to get old command repeat without taking help of HISTFILE

What problem are you attempting to solve?

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: recalling old commands

Raj D. — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:09:27 GMT

Chandrahasa s,

if you have already setup vi in .profile then "Default when press esc+k " you will see the old commands,

You can check:
# ksh -o vi
Esc k k k k ..... so on.

- To keep a record of the old file, you can implement HISTFILE with data and timestamp, by putting the code in users .profile

Also checkout few good links:
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=722093

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?&threadId=901609

Cheers,
Raj.

Re: recalling old commands

Dennis Handly — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:22:56 GMT

>Is there any way to recall old commands from other file?

Nothing other than the obvious. You cut&paste commands from the other file.

Or you can add "echo" before each command, execute that file is a script, then you can get them from the $HISTFILE and remove the "echo".