On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 05:06:57PM -0700, Mark Yieh wrote: > I just noticed that when I try to recall my history of commands by > issuing a "fc -l" command it only shows me the last 16 commands even > though my $HISTSIZE is the default 500. Anyone know why it's doing this? > I also tried to set my $HISTFILE to $HOME/.history just to see if that > makes any difference, but it doesn't. > > I'm using the default ksh shell on a GENERIC 4.5 kernel.
"fc -l -500" would show you the last 500 commands. See ksh(1) for the proper usage.