POSIX shell

[Allan Pincus]

I thought ESC-K was native to the POSIX shell, and I could use it to repeat command history?

It does not seem to work. If I do:

/usr/bin/ksh
set -o vi

Then I can get the history to work, but I want to use

/usr/bin/sh

What's going on?

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Allan:

Make sure your $HOME/.profile has:

# export EDITOR=vi
# export HISTFILE=$HOME/.sh_history

Regards!

...JRF...

[John Poff]

Hi,

You'll need to set the HISTFILE and HISTSIZE environment variables. The HISTFILE contains the shell history filename, and the HISTSIZE is the number of commands to keep in the file, default is 128.

JP

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Allan,

Make sure you set EDITOR=vi & HISTFILE=$HOME/.sh_history in your .profile and export THEM.

Rgds,
Jeff