Re: Create a file with history in sh

[Iain Hibbert <plunky%ogmig.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Rocky Hotas wrote:

> 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