dear Bob if my current shell does not have any history then how come i am getting the history when i run the same in the terminal?? from where i am getting this history.
Chaitanya On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Bob McConnell <r...@cbord.com> wrote: > From: Chaitanya Yanamadala > > > hai > > both of these didnt help me.. > > > > @kammen > > i can run the history command from the command line.. > > but not through the perl script.. > > i have tried ur choice but it also didnt work.. > > > > @shawn > > yes it didnt gave me any out put.. > > but i require to print the output.. > > so hw do i do it.. > > > > can some body help me on this.. > > Not until you learn a little more about Unix shells. Your command worked > perfectly, it just didn't output what you expected. The history command > in bash returnes the command history of the current shell. Since you > just opened it via the system call, it has no history, so it returns an > empty string. That behavior is correct. > > Now, what are you actually looking for? > > Bob McConnell >
