Re: a command line history

Thanks Howard, that's a great info. While I was aware of gqlplus there were some short comings that prevented me to adapt. The rlwrap is as transparent as it could be. If you have figured a way to use "vi" editing commands to edit the history, let me know.

-Madhu S

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:<41989cbe$0$24379$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> Not often am I moved to promote any piece of software, but this one
> deserves a nobel peace prize or something: I can finally stop kicking my
> cat in frustration.
>
> I am sure you old-time Linux gurus will yawn and say "yeah, yeah...been
> doin' that for AGES!", but some of us youngsters have been moaning
> relentlessly how Oracle's SQL*Plus on Linux isn't half as good as it is
> on, gulp, Windows because of the lack of a certain up-arrow capability
> to retrieve old commands.
>
> Well, help is at hand. A pathetically small (all 23KB of it) utility
> called rlwrap can be used to make a command line history available to
> all in Linux.
>
> Nothing to do with me. Nothing to do with earning money. I merely post
> as someone who saw it and cried "Thank the Lord and her mighty minions
> of the escutcheon and barnacles for that!!" when I saw it. Well, sort of.
>
> And yes, I know things such as "gqlplus" do something similar. But this
> works for lsnrctl, rman, exp, imp and anything else you care to throw at
> it.
>
> Anyway: if you know about it and think "Crikey! Where's he been all
> these years?", fair enough. And if you didn't know about it, and this
> helps you switch to Oracle-Linux, then I am happy for you. And Paul
> Burgess should be proud (so Richard can buy him a drink next time he's
> in Canberra. Mind you, if you're ever in Canberra you need more than a
> drink to get you over the fact....)
>
> <Shameless Plug> Explanatory article and download at
> http://www.dizwell.com/html/a_command_line_history.html
> </Shameless Plug>
>
> Regards
> Happy as Anything JR
Received on Mon Nov 15 2004 - 16:50:56 CST