Shell Programming and Scripting

Experts,
I have a question. Where are the vi logs are being stored.

For example: any command used within vi editor using :! ,(ex: :! pwd ex: :! ls -l ), so where the vi writes the command logs , dont see in .sh_history file so wondering.

Shell: /usr/bin/ksh

Thanks,

Command history are stored in .viminfo file

Yoda,
Thanks a lot, Does .viminfo applicable to hp-ux 11.23 server. I never seen a file .viminfo
Thanks.

No, this applicable for vim - Vi IMproved. I'm not sure if the vi in HP-UX supports command history.

Use vi a little, go to your home directory, type ls -lart command, see if any kind of vi history file being generated.

Yoda, hanson. Thanks, but ls -llart no command history generated. So that is why my wonder if vi was capturing the command history somewhere in hp-ux ksh shell.

If you want, you can post the results of ls -lart | tail.

Code:

$ ls -lart | tail -5
drwx------  2 xxx xxx     4096 Apr  7 15:51 .gnupg
drwx------  2 xxx xxx     4096 Apr 11 11:26 datafiles
-rw-rw-r--  1 xxx xxx   51851 Apr 11 11:26 .viminfo
drwxr-xr-x 32 xxx xxx     4096 Apr 11 11:26 .
-rw-rw-r--  1 xxx xxx  160586 Apr 11 14:50 .bash_history

If you do not see any files in the listing like .viminfo then no history being recorded.

Make sure you have set history=500 (or other value) set in your .exrc file or whatever vi startup file is used by your version of vi. It really helps to have history working, so it's worth the effort to figure out, I think.

Code:

set history=500