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Operating Systems AIX Custom AIX Prompt Post 302437274 by ptrotter on Wednesday 14th of July 2010 01:18:58 PM
Old 07-14-2010
Custom AIX Prompt

In my .profile, my prompt is set like this:

Code:
set -o vi
PS1=`logname`@`hostname -s`:'$PWD>'

Is there a way to show what the history number would be of the command I'm typing in the prompt? For example, I frequently run commands then run 'history' to pull up the history number of a command I want to repeat. Then I do [ESC] -> [history #] -> [g] to get my previous command. If I could show the history numbers in my prompt, this could cut out having to run history over and over again.

Thanks
 

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NAME
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Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside) SYNOPSIS
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