AIX

Hi Friends,

I am using AIX 6 with ksh shell, i am not able to get the commands histroy which was used earlier by pressing up and down arrow keys. Could you please help me to enable the history for ksh shell in AIX 6 OS.


Thanks in Advance.
Siva Kumar.

Siva Kumar,
AIX by default use ksh shell and to get your history straight away from the command line you have to get into esc mode ( similar to VI).

ESC + k ( previous command) , keep on pressing k to see what all command you have executed

Similarly , if you want to retrive any previous command with its keywords then use ESC+/ , then enter the keyword for ex lsvg , then it will list all the previous commands related to lsvg, then you use 'k' to surf through all the commands.

So its basically , using vi shell commands on the command line, if you know vi well then its very easy .

HTH
niv

If it still is not working for you, you may have to put a "set -o..." command in your $HOME/.profile or $HOME/.kshrc.

See this link:

Enable vi ksh Command Line Editing | a Tech-Recipes Tutorial

If you would rather use "emacs" commands for processing your history:

Viewing Session History in the ksh Shell | What the Shell? Getting Started with Unix | Peachpit


-tony

Code:

set -o vi

to kick off vi as the history editor if it is not in your .profile - and how would you edit .profile is another thread if you do not know vi and don't have another editor...