topic POSIX shell in Operating System - HP-UX

POSIX shell

Allan Pincus — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 19:29:00 GMT

I thought ESC-K was native to the POSIX shell, and I could use it to repeat command history?

It does not seem to work. If I do:

/usr/bin/ksh
set -o vi

Then I can get the history to work, but I want to use

/usr/bin/sh

What's going on?

Re: POSIX shell

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 19:37:00 GMT

Hi Allan:

Make sure your $HOME/.profile has:

# export EDITOR=vi
# export HISTFILE=$HOME/.sh_history

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: POSIX shell

John Poff — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 19:38:23 GMT

Hi,

You'll need to set the HISTFILE and HISTSIZE environment variables. The HISTFILE contains the shell history filename, and the HISTSIZE is the number of commands to keep in the file, default is 128.

JP

Re: POSIX shell

Jeff Schussele — Wed, 04 Sep 2002 19:40:41 GMT

Hi Allan,

Make sure you set EDITOR=vi & HISTFILE=$HOME/.sh_history in your .profile and export THEM.

Rgds,
Jeff