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Old 09-09-2004
knowing the shell & fc command
i use solaris 5.8 & sco release 5

please answer the 2 queries

1) how to know, in which shell are we in?

2) how to use the fc command in different shells?

replies as usual are greatly appreciated.

raguram R
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Old 09-09-2004
Quote:
1) how to know, in which shell are we in?
echo $SHELL
2) how to use the fc command in different shells?
man fc
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Old 09-10-2004
DEV|rram!pwd
/u2/rram
DEV|rram!echo $SHELL
/bin/sh
DEV|rram!fc -e vi -10 -1
fc: not found
DEV|rram!

this is what when i use the "fc" command. pl. help.

raguram R
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Old 09-10-2004
You will need to switch to ksh to use the fc command. Switching to ksh is a great idea. But not for the fc command. I love ksh but I never use the fc command. Dave Korn has said that he would leave fc out if he could start over.

Instead of the fc command, do either:
set -o emacs
or
set -o vi
then its like you're using one of those editors to enter the commands.
# 5  
Old 09-13-2004
I like aliasing "r" to "fc -e -" on my boxes, when using bash. That's the only time I use "fc" though. (And I know bash has it's own history functions anyway using the bang (!) but old habits die hard!)

Cheers
ZB
 
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