UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Some of my scripts have very long commands that go beyond the horizontal scroll limits of my screen (1024 x 768), even with a very small font. Is there a continuation character (like the option+l "ell") in AppleScript that will let me break up the line?

Right now I just press a hard return to inspect the line and then press delete to bring it back toghether.

Thanks in advance...Cassj

Hi,

Different solutions here.

ksh -o vi

will give you a Korn Shell with vi options.
This will make you be able to do "<Esc> +<k>", each time you press <k> you get the previous command. When submitting the <v> then it is opened in the text editor vi, very usefull editor

If you're done viewing, you just type ":wq"
But, be aware !! your comand will be executed by now !!

When entering a long command from the commandline you can do it as :

$ This is a very long \
> command that has lots of \
> parameters and I want to see \
> them all on my screen before\
> I hit enter
ksh : This : not found
$

As a little joke of course you get the error of this unknown command, but it realy works this way.

For changing vertical terminal settings (just to know), open a new terminal typing :
"nohup dtterm -sl 20000 -title Large_terminal"

@yourservice
David

Thanks davidg fro such a quick answer. I'll try what you've suggested.
Wow! The service here is great! :-)
-Cassj