From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 16:37:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22684 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:37:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22676 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:37:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA24610; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:06:42 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA24034; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:06:05 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981030110604.H5846@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:06:04 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Richard Belanger , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Command line history (was: http://www.hu.freebsd.org/mailto.html) References: <199810292322.SAA24128@bc.seflin.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810292322.SAA24128@bc.seflin.org>; from Richard Belanger on Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 06:22:08PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 29 October 1998 at 18:22:08 -0500, Richard Belanger wrote: > Does FreeBSD have a command-line history mechanism that can enable a user > to reuse previously entered long and complex command-line commands? No. FreeBSD is an operating system, and doesn't have command lines. The shell is the command line interface to FreeBSD. Some shells, such as bash and tcsh, have extensive command line history and editing facilities. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message