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# 1  
Old 01-18-2008
Power turn on aix history command
how do i turn on aix43 history command? so that i could recall the command with <esc>+k.

thanks
# 2  
Old 01-18-2008
You cant...

with ksh and .sh_history
the aix equivalent is <Esc> + <backslash> (On my keyboard that is [altGr]+<\>)
# 3  
Old 01-18-2008
Or do you need
set -o vi
?
# 4  
Old 01-19-2008
add set -o vi to your .profile or .kshrc
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