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. -- 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
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