Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:27:54AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a
> FreeBSD 6 server soon.
>
> There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I wonder if there
> is a way of having that on Debian too:
>
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> 1) First of all, there is a nice feature under FreeBSD: on a shell,
> command history can be filtered with a few characters, when using the up
> arrow. For example, if you rember you restarted a deamon before, you can
> type "/etc/i" and then press the up arrow key. Only past command that
> start with "/etc/i" appear, like "/etc/init.d/apache2 restart".
>
History and line-editing at the shell prompt is managed by the
readline library. Typing C-r will let you search backwards through
your history. man readline will also help.
> <snipped other questions>
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Kushal Kumaran kushal@it.iitb.ac.in
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