Recalling last typed commands

[Ruben Cardenal_2]

Hi people,

With sh, the way of recalling the last typed commands is pressing Esc and then with '+' and '-' search for the desired command. But is there any way of having sh acting like bash? This is, the list of typed commands through the arrow (up and down) keys.

TIA

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Bash is available for HP-UX (http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Shells/bash-2.05b/), why not use it?

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[John Dvorchak]

Yes Esc k will scroll backwards and j will go forward after you have gone back a little. Also while we're at it
Esc / some_string will search for that string in your history.

Esc Esc will auto complete a file/directory name.

You have to have three environment variables set to get the most out of the history:

export HISTFILE=/home/.sh_history
export HISTSIZE=1000 (for 1000 lines)
export EDITOR=vi

Have fun and good luck.

[Ruben Cardenal_2]

procua, I can't install bash on the machine :(

Jhon, that was already knew :P

[T G Manikandan]

get bash from
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Shells/bash-2.05b/

There are some dependencies

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gettext-0.11.5/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Development/Libraries/libiconv-1.8/

[Colin Topliss]

That would possibly depend on what you are using to log into your UNIX system with.

If you are just telnetting in from a PC, then no.
If you are SSH'ing in, then unlikely.
If you're on the console, then no.
If you are using Exceed, then you *may* be able to remap your arrow keys to do an 'h' or 'j' - the problem would be that you would still need to do the inital before attempting to use the mapped keys.

Personally I think it is more trouble than its worth though.

[CCIL]

Hi If you have HP-Unix , which is hving default shell as posix , you can recall the previuos command using the keystroke esc k, set the shell variable HISTSIZE & HISTFILE, HISTSIZE will be the number , that many number of command you can recall , HISTFILE=~/.sh_history, where all the command will be stored , history file