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#1 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 02:47 AM

Hi,

I've installed bash on aix 5.1, as I like it as a shell much more than ksh.
One of my colleagues is complaining that when he uses the up arrow for
history, the cursor is positioned at the beginning of the line, rather than
the end of the line like in linux. It's impossible then to delete the last
character on the line. Why does the history behave like this in AIX, and
is there a way to change it so it behaves more like in Linux?

#2 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 02:47 AM

Darren Birkett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed bash on aix 5.1, as I like it as a shell much more than ksh.
> One of my colleagues is complaining that when he uses the up arrow for
> history, the cursor is positioned at the beginning of the line, rather than
> the end of the line like in linux. It's impossible then to delete the last
> character on the line. Why does the history behave like this in AIX, and
> is there a way to change it so it behaves more like in Linux?

this is odd, since I'm using bash on AIX 5.1 and cursor is always at
EOL.

bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-ibm-aix5.1)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

oslevel -r
5100-05

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#3 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 02:47 AM

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:36:16 +0200,
Alberto 'JCN-9000' Varesio <Fake.User@Hotmail.com> wrote:

> Darren Birkett wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've installed bash on aix 5.1, as I like it as a shell much more than ksh.
>> One of my colleagues is complaining that when he uses the up arrow for
>> history, the cursor is positioned at the beginning of the line, rather than
>> the end of the line like in linux. It's impossible then to delete the last
>> character on the line. Why does the history behave like this in AIX, and
>> is there a way to change it so it behaves more like in Linux?
>
> this is odd, since I'm using bash on AIX 5.1 and cursor is always at
> EOL.
>
> bash --version
> GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-ibm-aix5.1)
> Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> oslevel -r
> 5100-05
>
>

The hehaviour is also determined by the ~/.inputrc file or whether at
some point "set -o vi" or "set -o emacs" has been issued, for example in
some profile file.

Villy

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