From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 29 16:16:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A70016A47B for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:16:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D281F43CA3 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:16:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so2180574wxc for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:16:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=t82Ha/Bz97GTbU3vuctWP/Dg+pA4AmuPdK/7BVIhMquY2yc4MJ9ONnrC6P8LnZ4/h490awSV0Rs8EcwLp+ig5h+zWRQm+qQ5mXVvcFQzxkVL8zW7LWIjkfpkVtpNy0ZyPwD1bGFMgw44ZfS84xeobuR3wy296eY8JKlzw0afRJU= Received: by 10.70.52.1 with SMTP id z1mr4287601wxz.1164817004308; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:16:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.133.6 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:16:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <57d710000611290816t50745067o86390bb963730669@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:16:44 -0800 From: "pete wright" To: "Andrew Pantyukhin" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Real-time command history sharing between interactive shells X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:16:47 -0000 On 11/29/06, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > I want to be able to define groups of interactive > shells (preferably even across different users) > so they have one single shared command history. > Any command executed in one of them should be > available through all history mechanisms in the > other ones. > > I imagine some ways to do it in tcsh. I'm sure > many users would like this kind of functionality, > maybe some of them have already implemented it? > sounds pretty interesting. maybe i'm missing something pretty basic here, so i assume sym-linking ~/.history between multiple accounts will not be sufficient. if it is you can define $HISTFILE in bash/ksh to point to ~/.history as well. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group