Re: command history with Tiger X11
Re: command history with Tiger X11
- Subject: Re: command history with Tiger X11
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:38:34 -0700
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2009, Philip Dennison wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have 6 Macs, of which one is running the latest version of Leopard and
> the rest are running 10.4.11 with all the latest updates.
>
> On all but one system I can access the X11 command history with the up
> and down arrow keys. I would love to get this working on the one machine.
>
> The problem computer is a 12 inch PowerBook G4. Command history works in
> Terminal, but not X11. But it wasn't working in Terminal either until
> recently when I found some hints on the web, there wasn't even a
> '.bash_history' file.
>
> Any ideas on how I can make X11 do this? The computer is over six years
> old, but has had a couple of replacement hard drives so I cannot say for
> sure what software has been on it. It had 10.2 as new, and I probably
> installed XDarwin as well as older X11s.
When you say X11, I presume you mean an xterm.
The history is a function of the shell, presumably /bin/bash, not
the xterm itself, so I would look at ~/.profile, ~/.bash_login,
and ~/.bashrc to see if there is something that is causing. In
bash, two environment variables may affect this, HISTSIZE and
HISTFILE.
Bill
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