Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!dan
From: dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: read in to history list
Message-ID: <1040@maccs.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 02:29:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.1040
Posted: Thu Mar  3 21:29:12 1988
References: <323@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier)
Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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In article <323@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> mike@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman) writes:
>Does someone know of a way to read commands into a history list
>under csh? I have some commands that I would like read in at
>login time.

Set the csh variable savehist (i.e. savehist=50) in your .login file.
Create a file say .preload with the history commands you want to preload.
Add the following command to your .login file "mv .preload .history".

Voila. You have whatever commands you need at login. The question is
can you create a history list which does not change. It would be useful
to have a set list of history commands to chose from. Yes you can alias
these commands but it's not the same thing.

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