From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 13:25:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ettnet.se (mail.ettnet.se [212.109.4.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE75737B91F for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 13:25:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tw@ettnet.se) Received: from tw.oden.se (ppp-212-109-5-4.ettnet.se [212.109.5.4]) by mail.ettnet.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5A1042E7; Wed, 10 May 2000 22:25:46 +0200 (CEST) Content-Length: 773 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [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: <3917D0CE.1DF8FAE6@3-cities.com> Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 22:25:50 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: tw@ettnet.se From: Thomas Widlundh To: Kent Stewart Subject: Re: I may be new....but. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Archimedes Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> >> 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