Help with History command

[Chris Fadrowski]

I was wondering if someone could tell me how to configure using k to get your previous commands. I forgot where to set this up and have a new HPUX 11.31 server. I can't remember what file or syntax to use to get this to work. Can someone help me remember?

[mobidyc]

Hello,

please check this link:
http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/17565-ksh-how-make-up-arrow-recall-command-history.html

Cheers,
Cedrick Gaillard

[Kenan Erdey]

Hi,

put in .profile

EDITOR=vi
export EDITOR

Kenan.

[Mel Burslan · Accepted solution]

your shell needs to be ksh or POSIX (/sbin/sh)
somewhere in your login (/etc/profile for all users or $HOME/.profile for a single user preferably) you will need to set these variables:

HISTSIZE=400 # 400 lines of history gets kept
HISTFILE=$HOME/.sh_history

and after setting these variable, somewhere in the same profile, you need to insert this line:

set -o vi

This should get you going

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

run this command.

#set -o vi

After that use "esc+k" key combination to retrieve the previously used commands.

You can set that value in your user profile to make it permenant.

[Chris Fadrowski]

thank you... adding HISTSIZE and HISTFILE with set -o vi into .profile worked.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Just a short note. Location is important for the HISTFILE.

I've seen it not work when placed on an NFS share with insufficient rights.

The user can alter this data. To properly track it you'll need a cron script to copy the data off to a place the user can't edit it.

SEP