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[92.195.74.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B34CB277D4; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 06:55:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id r8K4sund002230; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 06:54:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 06:54:56 +0200 From: Polytropon To: william benton Subject: Re: history Message-Id: <20130920065456.212f8636.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 04:55:13 -0000 On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:36:43 +0000, william benton wrote: > when I log into free bsd I am in the sh shell. i type history > at the command line and the machine says history not found. > If I type h at the command line it works like i expect the > history command to work. That is strange. The sh shell (system scripting shell and emergency dialog shell in SUM) does not have a history function. % sh $ h h: not found $ history history: not found $ _ > In the csh or tcsh shells history works as well as h. This is correct. A system-wide alias is defined for those shells: alias h 'history 25' It can be found in /etc/csh.cshrc. > why does entering history at the command line work in the csh and > tcsh shells but not in the sh shell. The sh shell (Bourne-like shell, actually a derivate of ash) does not have this functionality. Bash, the Bourne-again shell, supports the "history" function internally, and a "h" alias can be defined for this shell. % bash $ history [...] 501 history $ _ > Considering that all three shells seem to have the same .cshrc file? They don't. The csh and tcsh (system default dialog shell) use the cshrc mechanism (/etc/csh.cshrc for global settings, .cshrc for user settings, and .login and .logout for interactive shells), while sh uses /etc/profile and .profile and .shrc similarly. Bash uses .profile as well as .bash_profile and .bash_login in a comparable manner. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...