topic Re: sh: history: not found. in Operating System - HP-UX

sh: history: not found.

gg2023 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:08:42 GMT

dear exert,

In HP-UX B.11.31 U ia64, i run history with root , the following was that, "sh: history: not found." Please help me where the history was.. How to open this command ?

Re: sh: history: not found.

Supreeth_B — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:26:47 GMT

Hi @gg2023,

Please refer to Bill Hassell's response in this post https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/hp-ux-enable-history-command-navigation/m-p/4768774/highlight/true#M657674 you may find it helpful.

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Re: sh: history: not found.

gg2023 — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:31:17 GMT

dear expert,

In the shell env, the variables HISTFILE=//.sh_history
SHELL=/sbin/sh
HISTSIZE=5000 were there. However i found the history command use alias 'fc -l'. So when i could not executed ' history -c'. The error was sh: fc: A specified flag is not valid for this command.

Re: sh: history: not found.

gg2023 — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:34:58 GMT

when i unalias the history, i found the : sh: history: not found.