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

about history command

shan_7 — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:18:43 GMT

Hi everybody,

How to enable the history? I made entry for variable in .profile file in Home directory.
But after exporting aslo next login its not working

HISTFILE=/home/user/.sh_history
HISTSIZE=100
export HISTFILE

help me how to enable this permantently while login..

Shankar

Re: about history command

KapilRaj — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:23:57 GMT

Insert the following also in your .profile
ksh -o vi

And re-login ..

Kaps

Re: about history command

KapilRaj — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:26:02 GMT

check this thread

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=140137

Kaps

Re: about history command

Geoff Wild — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:46:52 GMT

Make sure user has write access to their home directory...

You don't need HISTFILE (unless you are root). The default is to use $HOME/.sh_history (see man sh-posix).

What shell is the user using?

Rgds...Geoff

Re: about history command

R. Sri Ram Kishore_1 — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 01:55:26 GMT

Hi Shankar,

Even "set -o vi" will do the job for you. As Geoff has rightly pointed out, .sh_history is where your command history is stored.

HTH.

Regards,
Sri Ram

Re: about history command

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 02:02:27 GMT

Hai,

We can use the history of commands usage from csh shell.
Default location of HISTFILE is /home/.sh_history. The users wants to use the histroy of commands has to have the full permission on /home/ directory.

If you want to have default history enablement after the startup,make changes on the /home/USER/.profile file.
To enable the history on shell use as like "set -o vi" or "ksh -o vi" with your HISTFILE options on that .profile file

See ksh man page for HISTFILE and command Re-entry part to know about this history of commands.

Regards,
Muthukumar

Re: about history command

Jose Mosquera — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 05:36:00 GMT

Hi,

Pls consider the following environment definition into your .profile:

EDITOR=vi; export EDITOR
HISTFILE=/.sh_history; export HISTFILE
HISTSIZE=10000; export HISTSIZE

Rgds.

Re: about history command

SAHA — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 06:03:33 GMT

Check this link:

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

Re: about history command

RIACDC — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:05:17 GMT

Shankar,

This is Don Conway......are you the shankar I worked with at Fisher Controls in Marshalltown, Iowa?

Don

Re: about history command

RIACDC — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:07:36 GMT

Shankar,Ganesh

This is Don Conway......are you the shankar I worked with at Fisher Controls in Marshalltown, Iowa?
Don donald.conway@chra.army.mil