monitoring history log

[mohd hashimi]

hi to all ...

i need to know how to trigger history here ...
when everytime at the prompt i press ESC-K i cant get the command i type before ..

thank you ..

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

This is the command recall feature of POSIX type shells such as ksh and HP's /usr/bin/sh. Put these 3 lines in /etc/profile so that all users will have the same feature:

export HISTFILE=$HOME/.sh_history
export HISTSIZE=1000
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi

Then login again, type a command like pwd and then ESC-K to recall. Use the built-in alias history to see the last few lines. Recall a line by searching for some string with ESC-/some_string. It will be displayed for editing with vi-style commands, and return to run the command.

[Dennis Handly]

>Bill: Put these 3 lines in /etc/profile ...

You also need to use: set -o vi

[mavrick]

Hi,

You can try by

set -o vi

this will set your command line environment.