afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel) (06/06/90)
We are slowly converting to UNIX here so forgive me if my question seems
dumb. Is it possible to get history to work inside a shell script - i.e.
get a history of the steps in the script which could then be appended to a file for later perusal? I tried :
#! /bin/csh
ls
who
date
history
The history command was mute. I even tried redirecting it to /dev/tty and
got diddly. Is it doing anything? If it is what, and where is it going?
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Pat Hertel Canadian Meteorological Centre
Analyst/Programmer Environment Canada
"Nobody loves me but my mother and she could be jiving too" - B.B. Kingjik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (06/07/90)
In article <1990Jun6.131927.22604@cid.aes.doe.CA>, afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel) writes: |> ["history" doesn't work in a csh shell script] There are various things that don't work in shell scripts, and the history mechanism is one of them. In fact, doing something like "!!" or "!-1" won't work either. Another example are the "fg" and "bg" operations. Try this script: #!/bin/csh sleep 60 & fg and you'll probably get this error: No job control in this shell. I'm not sure what the solution to these problems is, either than using another shell :-). Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8495 Home: 617-782-0710