MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

fc(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities fc(1)

HISTSIZE

gives the maximum number of previous commands that are accessible.

DIAGNOSTICS

Possible exit status values are:

0 If you speciﬁed –l, this indicates successful completion.

1 Failure due to any of the following:

— missing history ﬁle

— cannot ﬁnd the desired line in the history ﬁle

— cannot create temporary ﬁle

2 An invalid command line option or argument.

If fc executes one or more commands, the exit status of fc is the exit status of the last exe-

cuted command.

Messages

Because this utility is built into the

MPE/iX Shell, see the sh(1) man page for a complete list of

error messages that you may receive when using it.

PORTABILITY

POSIX.2. x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0.

This is a command built into the KornShell on UNIX systems, but not the Bourne Shell. On

UNIX systems, the KornShell does not truncate the history ﬁle at login.

NOTE

This command is built into the shell. r is a built-in alias for fc –s. history is a built-in

alias for fc –l.

MPE/iX NOTES

For information on how the current

MPE/iX implementation may affect the operation of this

utility, see Appendix A, MPE/iX Implementation Considerations.