Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 12:15:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Archimedes <pstanfield@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I may be new....but. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005091213580.11527-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <000801bfb992$eba7f500$0cf71018@c272234a>
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> 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? > > I may be lazy but it is such a useful feature I can't believe its not > there somewhere. help me find it please. > Well, ssh is not a shell, it's an encrypted telnet of sorts (that's the easy way to describe it, not entirely accurate... but basically what it is) csh supports what you want, as does tcsh. You can also just get bash if that's what you like. Take a look in the packages, you will find them all. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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