Re: QSHELL commands (was: Stmf copy with add)

On Saturday 13 October 2001 11:04 pm, I wrote (but forgetting the
footnote):
[snip] ...It's easy
> enough (on Linux at least) to get help *before* running the command,
> but not once you start typing it. I usually search back through command
> history[1] to pull back a command that did what I wanted, rather than
> try to figure out all the options again.

[1] This is one I which I had on OS/400.

history | grep mycmd

to see all the times I used a particular command. There was a HISTORY
command written in '97 from MC (?) that can pull out commands for a job,
but it's limited to the selected job. F9 retrieval is okay, but very
limited (no search, and only backwards scrolling - miss the one you want;
start again :-( ). The *nix history logs the last n commandline requests
(in my case n=1000) making this sort of search easy. I guess it's similar
to an SQL session log, but as it's already in a file, it's more easy to
process.

Regards, Martin
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