From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 1:35:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA8737B569 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 01:35:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pstanfield@home.com) Received: from c272234a ([24.16.247.12]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with SMTP id <20000509083526.NPE1652.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@c272234a> for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 01:35:26 -0700 Message-ID: <000801bfb992$eba7f500$0cf71018@c272234a> From: "Archimedes" To: Subject: I may be new....but. Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 01:45:25 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01BFB958.3F066EB0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BFB958.3F066EB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ok, this is really stumping me. In linux, by default, I think you get the basic shell or "bash", this = shell allows you to simply hit the up arrow to go through a bunch of = your previous command line commands. =20 So I install FreeBSD, and lo and behold, I can find no such feature in = the basic (bourne?) shell. Is there one? How about for other shells = like csh and ssh? I may be lazy but it is such a useful feature I can't believe its not = there somewhere. help me find it please. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BFB958.3F066EB0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Ok, this is really stumping = me.

In linux, by default, I think you get = the basic=20 shell or "bash", this shell allows you to simply hit the up arrow to go = through=20 a bunch of your previous command line commands.

So I install FreeBSD, and lo and = behold, I can find=20 no such feature in the basic (bourne?) shell. Is there one? = How=20 about for other shells like csh and ssh?

I may be lazy but it is such a useful = feature I=20 can't believe its not there somewhere. help me find it=20 please.

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