Create a file with history in sh

[Rocky Hotas]

Hello!
I am quite new with this mailing-list.
During the installation of NetBSD, I choose /bin/sh as the default root and user shell.
In the users' home directories there are not files like .sh_history or similar and no "history-like" files are updated when I log in or log out. But I would like to keep trace of all the commands typed in the terminal, the last 100 or 1000, and not only the ones typed in the current login session, accessible with the up arrow.
Reading the sh manual I didn't find the possibility to create a permanent file with history like in bash or ksh.
Is it true or there exist some possibility to do this? Or where I can look for this option?
With Google I didn't find more.
This seemed the best place for my question, but please give me any suggestion if I am someway wrong.
Thank you!

Rocky

[Iain Hibbert]

Post by Rocky Hotas
Hello!
I am quite new with this mailing-list.
During the installation of NetBSD, I choose /bin/sh as the default root and user shell.
In the users' home directories there are not files like .sh_history or similar and no "history-like" files are updated when I log in or log out. But I would like to keep trace of all the commands typed in the terminal, the last 100 or 1000, and not only the ones typed in the current login session, accessible with the up arrow.
Reading the sh manual I didn't find the possibility to create a permanent file with history like in bash or ksh.
Is it true or there exist some possibility to do this? Or where I can look for this option?

On NetBSD /bin/sh is a very basic shell (by intention), and it doesn't
have this feature.

you could use /bin/ksh instead, which does have this feature, or /bin/csh

regards,
iain

[Paul Goyette]

Post by Iain Hibbert

Post by Rocky Hotas
Hello!
I am quite new with this mailing-list.
During the installation of NetBSD, I choose /bin/sh as the default root and user shell.
In the users' home directories there are not files like .sh_history or similar and no "history-like" files are updated when I log in or log out. But I would like to keep trace of all the commands typed in the terminal, the last 100 or 1000, and not only the ones typed in the current login session, accessible with the up arrow.
Reading the sh manual I didn't find the possibility to create a permanent file with history like in bash or ksh.
Is it true or there exist some possibility to do this? Or where I can look for this option?

On NetBSD /bin/sh is a very basic shell (by intention), and it doesn't
have this feature.
you could use /bin/ksh instead, which does have this feature, or /bin/csh

Or pkgsrc/shells/tcsh


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