El mié, 3 jul 2024 a las 3:10, Robert Elz (<k...@munnari.oz.au>) escribió: > > Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 11:37:50 +0200 > From: Ramiro Aceves <ea1...@gmail.com> > Message-ID: > <CANfMP77ZaC7YX4=pjqe_2dd_rqyhflv41tqtcf3sgx1atpw...@mail.gmail.com> > > > | Because I rebooted the system there was nothing at sh shell history, I > | would be a good thing being able to know what I did. I think that > | NetBSD sh does not have the posibility of configuring a history file > | to record the past commands, but not sure. Am I right? That would be a > | good thing. > > You are right, there's no current way in sh to save history across > invocations -- except perhaps using "fc" amd manually manipulating > the list of commands, and merging that with a previous list, which > could perhaps be automated in the ENV file for startup, and using an > exit trap to update it, but it would certainly be messy. > > Adding a HISTFILE var, reading from it into the history at startup > (interactive shells only) and writing history to it at exit, or perhaps > even command by command, so it could be used by multiple shells > simultaneously, is something I have imagined from time to time, but > "imagined" is as far as that have ever gotten, given there doesn't > seem to be a huge demand for that.
Thanks Robert, Yes, months ago when I started playing with NetBSD I configured a HISTSIZE variable, and after that I set HISTFILE var but as it did not work I read the man page and did not see anything about the history file, so I started thinking that the feature was certainly missing. I know that there are other shells with that feature but I like my NeBSD with standard features as much as possible. Nothing against bash and another shells, also have Linux systems running but I like my NetBSD as pure and standalone as possible. ;-) Regards. Ramiro. > > kre >
