Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 22:25:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Archimedes <pstanfield@home.com> Subject: Re: I may be new....but. Message-ID: <XFMail.000510222550.tw@ettnet.se> In-Reply-To: <3917D0CE.1DF8FAE6@3-cities.com>
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>> >> In linux, by default, I think you get the basic shell or "bash", >> this shell allows you to simply hit the up arrow to go through a >> bunch of your previous command line commands. >> So I install FreeBSD, and lo and behold, I can find no such feature >> in the basic (bourne?) shell. Is there one? How about for other >> shells like csh and ssh? Hi, Well, in sh (Bourne shell) there is a list of 'history'. You can type h and a list of your last commands will appear, with numbers. I haven't figured out if you can use some kind of 'shorty' to repeat a command, though. Anybody knows this? And another thing! Anybody knows what file brings a shell to start with that perticular shell? I want to change sh to bash, permanently. Not just for the moment. Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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