On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:27:54AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a > FreeBSD 6 server soon. > > There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I wonder if there > is a way of having that on Debian too: > > ------------ > ------------ > > 1) First of all, there is a nice feature under FreeBSD: on a shell, > command history can be filtered with a few characters, when using the up > arrow. For example, if you rember you restarted a deamon before, you can > type "/etc/i" and then press the up arrow key. Only past command that > start with "/etc/i" appear, like "/etc/init.d/apache2 restart". >
History and line-editing at the shell prompt is managed by the readline library. Typing C-r will let you search backwards through your history. man readline will also help. > <snipped other questions> -- Kushal Kumaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]