history command ???

[someone_4]

I was reading a post about a history command
history -100 to give you the last 100 commands. How do you set it up? and is it the last 100 command that you type? Or that anyone types?
thanks

Richard

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Check in .profile HISTFILE and HISTSIZE,environnement variables of history.

[Rob Smith]

Just to add to the response above, it is the last 100 commnands you type, command history is unique to each user. The variable $HISTFILE contains the commands, usually .sh_history and the variable $HISTSIZE is the number of commands that will be saved. Hope this helps.

Rob

[Jim Moffitt_1 · Accepted solution]

In your .profile put in the following. YOu can have your HISTSIZE as large as you want. It will be put in your HISTFILE /.sh_history

# Set command history
HISTFILE=/.sh_history
export HISTFILE
HISTSIZE=2000
export HISTSIZE

[Kevin Wright]

once you finish setting up your variable HISTFILE, you can access this info using the 'esc k' combo in the Korn and posix shell.
or type in history, and you get a list of the commands you entered.

[Jaimin Parikh]

Hi,

Type "set" command to list all vairables known to your current shell.


The variables for your interest are : HISTFILE (It shows the location of history
file .sh_history) and HISTSIZE (it shows how many commands are stored in history file).

Use "history" command to retrieve the commands in history or you can use "Esc-K" key sequence.

It is for your current shell and it's subshell only and not for all users.

Regards,
Jaimin