From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 15 02:33:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA20493 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 02:33:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA20471 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 02:33:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.164]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:35:03 +0200 Received: (from malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00839; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:30:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <35AC3CDC.A67775AE@smartmedia.com.ar> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:30:29 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: "Numard (Norberto Meijome)" Subject: Re: Doskey? Cc: FreeBSD Questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15-Jul-98 Numard (Norberto Meijome) wrote: > Andrew Specht wrote: >> >> Doskey does the same thing as the .bash_history file if i remember >> correctly. >> >> It allows you to scan through your previous commands. > yup.... but only the last 50 (compare it to the last 500 in my unix box, > be it Linux or FreeBSD :))) One nice thing that WinNT has in its shell > is when you press F7, a pop-up window shows up and you can scroll > through the history and select w/ what you want. But you can work > your way around with ~/.bash_history Then try -r and type some chars. It'll scan through the history and update the result depending on your search-pattern. Additionally try setting "export HISTSIZE=200000" in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile to get 200000 lines of typed history. Increment to your desire or machine-limits. Malte. > -- > Norberto Meijome (a) Numard, (a) Beto | ICQ # 15032073 > * Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to > be very selective about who it decides to make friends with. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance Date: 15-Jul-98 Time: 11:26:58 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message