fc: history not active

[Erratus]

> fc -l
fc: history not active

> history 5
    30  13:20   vi
    31  13:20   fc -l
    32  13:24   history
    33  13:24   history -5
    34  13:24   history 5

Why does fc say "history not active", as history can be used?

 

[SirDice]

Wrong shell? fc is a bourne shell command.

 

[Erratus]

Is there a convincing way to edit the .history in csh/tcsh?
I.e. deleting passwords which made their way into the history, or other commands that should not be visible there? Or look at the timestamp when a command was done?

 

[SirDice]

I.e. deleting passwords which made their way into the history,

Simple solution, don't use commands with the password in the commandline options.

or other commands that should not be visible there?

Which are?

Or look at the timestamp when a command was done?

Timestamps are pretty useless when double commands are only registered once.

But have a look at the tcsh(1) man page. Lots more explained there.

 

[john_doe]

> history -S
<edit ~/.history here>
> history -cL

You can make an alias[cmd=>]alias histed 'history -S && ee ~/.history && history -cL'[/cmd]