Patrick R. Wade,
My OS is solaris too, my shell is csh, and I can use !! to repeat the last command.
I was right then to believe that !! was a shell thing not OS.
I never believe in what I believe to be right, until it is about to proven wrong, and
I reaserch it.
Patrick R. Wade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [19/07/01 at 20:04]:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:01:21AM -0700, Tim Howe wrote:
> >
>
> those history functions are entirely part of the shell; the modular design
> of *NIX means that they are kernel-independant. If you can't repeat last
> command with !! in your Solaris shell, then either you are running a shell
> that does not support history or your HISTCHAR variable is set to something
> other than ! . It should work fine under Linux, since the default shell
> is bash. What does your Solaris account say to the command
>
> $ echo $SHELL
>
> I've just been reading the history section of "UNIX Power Tools", and there
> is a lot of l33t stuff that can be done with history...
>
> --
> A full height 19" rack with a glass door looks very out of place
> when it's all alone. Sort of like a perverted shrine to the
> God of Blinkenlights.
> - Pim van Riezen, in the Monastery
>
>
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast. William
Congreve.
