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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: searching doskey's style command
Date: 25 Sep 1995 08:55:23 +0100
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden.
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Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> wrote:

>The bourne shell has command line history
>
>     sh
>     $ set -o emacs
>
>^P == previous line ^N == next line ^B == previous character ^F ==
>next character.

For all "usual" terminal types, there's a high probability that the
arrow keys will work, too.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)