Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!kuling!irf
From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: read in to history list
Message-ID: <675@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 88 05:50:02 GMT
References: <323@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <2450002@hpsal2.HP.COM>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <2450002@hpsal2.HP.COM> morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael
Morrell) writes:
>/ hpsal2:comp.unix.questions / mike@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael
>Lodman) /  8:58 am  Feb 29, 1988 /
>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.
>Try: source -h file
>
>It's documented for 4.1BSD csh.  It does not work on HP-UX (why?).

I ask myself the same thing.  Strangely enough does 'history -h'
work in HP-UX even though it is not documented!  So I thought that
'source -h' should work too and I even mentioned that in one of
my bug reports, hoping that HP, in their ambition to please their
customers ( ;-> ), would implement 'source -h'.

Another possible way to add to the history buffer would be to
update the $HOME/.history file at login time.  I usually play
around with that file to remove duplicate commands (an idea
I got from an article in "HP Communicator").

BTW, there are a few other undocumented commands available in HP-UX
'csh'.  One is 'bye' which seems to work the same way as 'logout'/'exit'.

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