topic Re: How do I create Shell Shortcuts in Operating System - HP-UX

How do I create Shell Shortcuts

RAND IT Solutions — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:02:28 GMT

Can someone tell me what goes
into my profile to get those
cool command line shortcuts
that do things like History
using Esc K to recall the
previously typed commands,
the way to get the hostname
to display at the shell
prompt and any other cool
things that are typically
seen on an HPUX box.

Thanks, Bill

Re: How do I create Shell Shortcuts

Bruno Vidal — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:08:34 GMT

Hi
First, this cool features depend of the shells.
csh, bash and other shell react differently. The ESC-k is a ksh/sh feature when HIST_FILE is defined. For the prompt it is defined by PS1 and PS2 variable. So I think you should take a look at man pages of your favorite shell (for myself it is bash).
Good luck.

Re: How do I create Shell Shortcuts

Ken Hubnik_2 — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:11:06 GMT

Go out to this website and their are all kinds of sysadmin goodies. ftp://contrib:9unsupp8@hprc.external.hp.com

Re: How do I create Shell Shortcuts

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:12:33 GMT

try

set -o vi

it's a vi style prompt.

Later,
Bill

Re: How do I create Shell Shortcuts

RAND IT Solutions — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:15:52 GMT

That's all I should need.
I actually dug out my HPUX
manual from the dust and
realized there was a whole
chapter on it. You guys replied way too fast for me !
Thanks
Bill

Re: How do I create Shell Shortcuts

T G Manikandan — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:17:09 GMT

for command line history

set -o vi

for prompt
PS1=`hostname`@`logname`"#"

history

HISTSIZE=500
HISTFILE=.sh_history
export HISTSIZE HISTFILE

Re: How do I create Shell Shortcuts

Stefan Schulz — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 05:27:57 GMT

Hi,

regarding the histfile. Dont make the same mistake and store the histfile on a NFS mounted directory.

This works only 99% of the time. But suddenly your user just cant log in any more.

So this looks like:

HISTFILE=/tmp/.sh_history.$LOGNAME
export HISTFILE

Regards Stefan