Shell Programming and Scripting

I am working in a shell, and I am used to using the up and down keys as a shortcut for the history of input commands, but it does not work for me on my new shell and computer.

is there a variable i have to set or something i have to configure to do make the up and down keys do something??

Thank you!

Which OS you are using?

Maybe. It's not the same everywhere. What's your system? What's your shell?

for the ksh shell, try set -o emacs

ye sorry I did not specify, so I am using windows and c shell(i know not the best idea)..basically I am pretty sure there isn't a built in fuction but I've seen people use c shell and do the up and down key feature.

Perhap I can create an alias in my login file. something like:
alias <symbol for up key>=echo !!

..i know that ^ wont work but anyone have any ideas??

Which version of c shell?

Honestly I am not sure, and I don't know where to get this information sorry, but I can say I am using the latest version of MKS C Shell..

but does anyone know how I could perhaps write an alias for the up and down arrow keys if possibile??

Thanks you!

Thank you.

I don't think this proprietary, eccentric, Windows implementation of the eccentric C shell supports history in that manner. Its manual page doesn't mention anything of the sort. The MKS korn shell isn't very good either.

You alias commands, not individual keys.

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You can find an ancient BASH shell for Windows here, and the unxutils project contains a rather decent zsh for windows. The zsh one in particular is rather nice.