From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 1:53:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA61D37B56A for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 01:53:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.135]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 May 2000 01:53:29 -0700 Message-ID: <3917D0CE.1DF8FAE6@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 01:48:14 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Archimedes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I may be new....but. References: <000801bfb992$eba7f500$0cf71018@c272234a> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 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. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message