How do I create Shell Shortcuts

[RAND IT Solutions]

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

[Bruno Vidal · Accepted solution]

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.

[Ken Hubnik_2]

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

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

try

set -o vi

it's a vi style prompt.

Later,
Bill

[RAND IT Solutions]

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

[T G Manikandan]

for command line history

set -o vi

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

history

HISTSIZE=500
HISTFILE=.sh_history
export HISTSIZE HISTFILE

[Stefan Schulz]

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