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From: lvc@cbnews.att.com (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: printing ksh history a la csh
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.230050.17182@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 23:00:50 GMT
References: <2582@sapwdf.UUCP>
Organization: Ideology Busters Inc.
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In article <2582@sapwdf.UUCP> Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de> writes:
>folks,
>
>  in ksh, i'd like to say "history 30" to print the last 30 commands as
>  in csh.  if you know how to do this, i would be obliged.

	$ history -30

>  another "feature" of our ksh is that if you specify a starting
>  number that is too low, instead of printing just what it knows,

This has been a sore point with me for a long time as well.  I have
asked Korn to change ksh so that it would do this but it was not done.

You could do something like this:

	ncmd="`history -1 | sed -e 's/[ 	].*//' -e 1d`"
	if [ "$ncmd" -gt "$HISTSIZE" ]
	then
		ncmd=$HISTSIZE
	fi
	history -$ncmd

That's the basic idea at least.
-- 
Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox!lvc or lvc@cbvox.att.com
"Fight fire with fire, I always say" -- Bugs Bunny