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Date:      Tue, 09 May 2000 01:48:14 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Archimedes <pstanfield@home.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I may be new....but.
Message-ID:  <3917D0CE.1DF8FAE6@3-cities.com>
References:  <000801bfb992$eba7f500$0cf71018@c272234a>

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> Archimedes wrote:
> 
> Ok, this is really stumping me.
> 
> 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?

Well, you have choices. You need to "cd /usr/ports/shells" and choose
which one you want to make and install. I use the PD version of ksh
and can't help you beyond this point.

If you use csh, which I do on root, you can !comm<cr> and it will use
the last command starting comm*. 

Kent

> 
> I may be lazy but it is such a useful feature I can't believe its
> not there somewhere.  help me find it please.

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