On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:44:26AM -0800, Bryan Brake wrote:
> I am taking an "Intro to UNIX" class at school.
> The teacher has asked that we send him a copy of
> our .history files to show what steps we used to
> complete certain assignments. I was able to setup
> the history in my .profile by reading ksh(1), but
> after I rebooted and issued a few commands, I
> looked at the .hist???? file I created, but it
> doesn't look the way I expected.
>
> It looks like this:
>
> <<Iy [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]@^Bls [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@^Cvi
> .hist10512
>
> This is all on one line.
>
> I can decode it well enough. There is gibberish,
> then a letter (A,B,C, etc), then the command I put
> in.
>
> Is there a way to configure ksh to make the
> commands display one command per line, or will I
> have to edit it manually.
>
> I use bash on other machines, and .bash_history
> has each command on one line. I realize ksh isn't
> the same. Maybe I should build bash from ports...
Aside from the many, many suggestions already made, screen can do a
pretty good job too (Ctrl-A H).
joachim
