History Command in HPUX

[panks]

How can I check the history of command I fired !! Like in other unix history command is ther.

Pls guide

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

env | grep HIST

If HISTFILE is set thats where command line history will be. Note this can't be NFS, it won't work.

If its not set, set it in the /etc/profile for the whole system.

SEP

[TTr]

Search in this forum for "command history". There are many threads.

Depending on what kind of shell you are using, there are different ways and places to set it up and different ways to use it (recall the previous commands).

[Dennis Handly]

>SEP: If HISTFILE .... Note this can't be NFS, it won't work.

In the past there were ksh hangs if HISTFILE was over NFS. I heavily depend on that to have a shared history file for 17 shells and various machines.
If you have the right NFS patches, it works.
You do have to be careful for different OS versions and when the count gets past 64K, bad things happen ...

[Asif Sharif]

Hi Panks,

See the related forums.
http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1213240542245+28353475&threadId=965150
http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1213240575723+28353475&threadId=58131
http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1213240587544+28353475&threadId=52458
http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1213240580195+28353475&threadId=1142515

Regards,
Asif sharif

[Jeeshan]

or use "man history" for details info.

[Dennis Handly]

>ahsan: or use "man history" for details info.

I get an empty gnu page from 2003.
Since history is a shell builtin, you'll need to look at your shell's man page.

[ln_unix]

1) history command

$history
or
man history (for help)

2)If u r using POSIX shell, then can also use

cat .sh_history

[panks]

Thanks