On 9/19/13 3:36 PM, william benton wrote: > when I log into free bsd I am in the sh shell. i type history at the > command line and the machine says history not found. If I type h at > the command line it works like i expect the history command to work. > In the csh or tcsh shells history works as well as h. why does > entering history at the command line work in the csh and tcsh shells > but not in the sh shell. Considering that all three shells seem to > have the same .cshrc file?
Bourne shell (sh) has no history component. Bourne Again shell (bash) does, as well as C-shell and Turbo C-shell (csh/tcsh). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell#Criticism Best, --Glenn _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"