Unix cmd prompt how to get old cmd run?

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,
I am using SunOS

I want to serch my previous command
from unix prompt

(like on AIX we can search by ESC -k)

how to get in SunOs

urgent help require.

2

If you are on Bash or Ksh then you could use "history" command. "history n" lists the last n commands.

tyler_durden

3

try

set -o vi
4

I do not want to go through all history .
I want to get display cmd one by one and on my required one i will press enter key
or search previous cmd by pattern on prompt and when it display on prompt just enter and run .

please help me

5

do you try set -o vi, then ESC-k ?

6

when trying : set -o vi
getting error like-
: set: Syntax error

7

Hi.

That's a csh error.

In csh you can recall the history of the last command using !!, and other commands using the history command or !10 for a specific command from the history.

% set history=200
% history
     4  set history=100
     5  history

% !5
history
     4  set history=100
     5  history
     6  history

% !!
history
     4  set history=100
     5  history
     6  history
     7  history

TTTT: csh and tcsh command history

8

The command for setting a vi-like mode to the tcsh shell is

bindkey -v
9

In my home dir

.profile
.boks_uenv
.cshrc
..
esin
personal.cshrc
myprog
.kshrc

while running :

bindkey -v
bindkey: Command not found

please suggest

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!!, !3 etc works but I don't know the no. of cmd and want to search
like in AIX-ksh I was doing by Esc / and then type search pattern OR doing ESC-K and continue till get desire cmd.

help me

10

per the csh man page on Solaris. it looks like the Solaris csh does not support bindkey. it's different then using vi mode with ksh on AIX but it provides similar functionality. If you can I suggest changing your login shell to ksh or just run ksh after logging in.

  Event Designators
     An event designator is a reference to a command  line  entry
     in the history list.

     !     Start a history substitution, except when followed  by
           a space character, tab, newline, = or (.

     !!    Refer to the previous command. By itself, this substi-
           tution repeats the previous command.

     !n    Refer to command line n.

     !-n   Refer to the current command line minus n.

     !str  Refer to the most recent command starting with str.

     !?str?
           Refer to the most recent command containing str.

     !?str? additional
           Refer to the most recent command  containing  str  and
           append additional to that referenced command.

     !{command} additional
           Refer to the most recent command beginning  with  com-
           mand and append additional to that referenced command.

     ^previous_word^replacement^
           Repeat the previous command line replacing the  string
           previous_word  with  the  string  replacement. This is
           equivalent to the history substitution:

           !:s/previous_word/replacement/.

           To re-execute a specific  previous  command  AND  make
           such a substitution, say, re-executing command #6,

           !:6s/previous_word/replacement/.
11

If not, just run:

ksh -o vi

and then you would be able to use ESC+K to recall previous commands.

Let us know