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about csh under HP-UX

huomzh — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:58:33 GMT

i can use command " set -o vi" or env
"EDITOR=vi" in ksh,but how can do the same is csh?
thanks.
mingzheng huo

Re: about csh under HP-UX

linuxfan — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:19:15 GMT

Hi,

I don't believe you can do "command line editing" in csh.

you can get the history of commands using "history"

Commands from the history can be recalled using the exclamation point. For example, !! repeats the previous command, !25 re-types command number 25 from the history, and !-2 re-types the second line previous to the current line.

You will have to use tcsh
(tcsh is C shell with file name completion, command line editing and other features such as enhanced variable modifiers )or ksh or bash or one of the many other shells which allows command line editing.

-HTH
Ramesh

Re: about csh under HP-UX

Michael Tully — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 04:38:07 GMT

Hi,

If you want command line completion 'tcsh' is the way to go. You can the already compiled version from the below link.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Shells/tcsh-6.10.00/

HTH
-Michael

Re: about csh under HP-UX

T G Manikandan — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 05:18:49 GMT

Hello,
Ramesh is right.
For command line completion use
root#set filec
for that.

Thanks

Re: about csh under HP-UX

Santosh Nair_1 — Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:21:22 GMT

Your best bet is to use tcsh, which is a much better csh alternative. It has featuers such as command editing, file/command completion and a bunch more:

http://www.tcsh.org

Or alternativerly you can use zsh or GNU's bash:

http://zsh.sunsite.dk
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html

Or my favorite, stick with the posix shell (/usr/bin/sh on HPUX). It takes a little while getting used to, but has lots of nice features and its a standard part of the HPUX distribution.

-Santosh