UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am quite used to program this way and its frustrating when you find
that the utility is not there anymore...in the new system.
I used give this in the command line

CC k[ press ESC ]
this used to give all the files starting with k one by one as I keep hitting the return key.

like if I had 10 files starting from k1 to k10

then if I give this in the command line

CC k[ hit ESC key]

first it gives

CC k1
then it gives ( after I scroll up or down with the arrow key)
CC k2
if I use the arrow key again it will
change to
CC k3

I want this utility again, I dont know if this has something to do
with the .cshrc file.
but that is my only guess.
I was using Solaris 8 before, now solaris 9.

Can someone tell me how to get this utility again?

it not only works with CC it works with many other commands
like cat or rn etc...
I do not want an alternative solution for this since I know
ls k* will give me all file names starting with k and I can compile them one by one
or I can use find or piping to do the same.

but doing this at the prompt was easier

$CC my [esc]

instead of
$CC myworld.c

From what you describe, it sounds like you had a different default shell in Solaris 8 - csh doesn't have a escape k option to my knowledge. Ksh does.

Try the following:
ksh -o vi

See if that is what you were looking for. Then either change your default shell to ksh, or just run that command to go into a ksh.

this is to do with command terminal and not vi editors,

try this simple thing in your terminal
if you have a lots of .c files (some starting with letter n or any letter you want, create a new.c if you want) then at the prompt

CC n[hit ESCAPE]

then in the terminal prompt you will see

CC new.c

if that is the only file starting with n

I had this utility earlier now I dont have it. thanks for answering my question but I tried going into ksh, it did not work.

I hope you understand what I want. thanks anyway.

Did you try doing what RTM told you?

This does have to do with vi and you should be in a ksh shell.

Again I say that I'm very rusty with csh, but try

Code:

user@host> set filec

If that works for you you can add "set filec" to ~/.cshrc

thanks set filec worked.

the ksh did not work.

thanks.