Hi
I use Linux Mint 7 Main Edition x86 on my Eee S101 and I have a problem.
If I open a Terminal the history is empty. Is the a special Mint-feature and how do I fix that, so I can see my previous history and use !cat commands?
Regards Louis
Terminal history
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miket
Re: Terminal history
Hi !
Add the following to the end of /etc/bash.bashrc :
Then log out and login in again to get the new setting.
You can now use vi commands on the command line to scroll back and forth through your last used commands.
ESC k to go back one command, hit k over and over to go back one more command each time
ESC j to move forward through the command history
ESC /part-of-command to search the history for a particular command, for example ESC /ls will search for all command you have used that start with ls
A full command set for vi can be found here :
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~cslab/vi.html
MikeT.
Add the following to the end of /etc/bash.bashrc :
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set -o vi
You can now use vi commands on the command line to scroll back and forth through your last used commands.
ESC k to go back one command, hit k over and over to go back one more command each time
ESC j to move forward through the command history
ESC /part-of-command to search the history for a particular command, for example ESC /ls will search for all command you have used that start with ls
A full command set for vi can be found here :
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~cslab/vi.html
MikeT.
Louis wrote:Hi
I use Linux Mint 7 Main Edition x86 on my Eee S101 and I have a problem.
If I open a Terminal the history is empty. Is the a special Mint-feature and how do I fix that, so I can see my previous history and use !cat commands?
Regards Louis
Re: Terminal history
Isn't is possible just use the "history" command and arrow up and down keys like I do at other distributions?
Re: Terminal history
Fixed it. Just renamed .bash_logout to .bash_logout_old and then the terminal remembers my history.
In .bash_logout I can read that the reason why the history-feature has been disabled, is to increase the level of privacy.
Linux Mint is a distribution which mission is to be easy to use, and it's not easy to learn Linux when your terminal history gets deleted every time you close the terminal. At that way you can't run commands like "history" and "!cat", and the user gets frustrated when he/she followed a guide for Ubuntu or general Linux that doesn't works with Linux Mint.
Sure privacy is an important thing, but I will mean that Linux Mint is secure enough with password protection an so on.
If you want extreme privacy you should try distributions like http://www.polippix.org/. Linux Mint is an easy to use distribution and therefore I'll recommend the Mint team to disable the history-feature
In .bash_logout I can read that the reason why the history-feature has been disabled, is to increase the level of privacy.
Linux Mint is a distribution which mission is to be easy to use, and it's not easy to learn Linux when your terminal history gets deleted every time you close the terminal. At that way you can't run commands like "history" and "!cat", and the user gets frustrated when he/she followed a guide for Ubuntu or general Linux that doesn't works with Linux Mint.
Sure privacy is an important thing, but I will mean that Linux Mint is secure enough with password protection an so on.
If you want extreme privacy you should try distributions like http://www.polippix.org/. Linux Mint is an easy to use distribution and therefore I'll recommend the Mint team to disable the history-feature