On Thursday 06 November 2003 17:41, Brian Baquiran wrote: > According to bash(1): > > HISTORY > When interactive, the shell provides access to the command history, the > list of commands previously typed. > > Your script is not interactive, hence no history is available.
however, "history -n" is a workaround. if you first do a history -n in the script, then history will return the contents of the $HISTFILE. however, it does *not* remember shell commands done inside the script. but if all he needs to do is do some text processing on the history then it's possible. i don't see much profit in it myself :). but it's possible. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. Finagle's law. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
