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From: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: why doesn't history work in a shell script?
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Date: 6 Jun 90 13:19:27 GMT
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 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?

-- 
Pat Hertel                 Canadian Meteorological Centre
Analyst/Programmer         Environment Canada
    "Nobody loves me but my mother and she could be jiving too" - B.B. King