On Friday 19 February 2010 12:42, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 2/19/2010 11:30 AM, Robert Spangler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if bash or inputrc has changed form CentOS v4 to CentOS > > v5? Reason I ask is at the bash cli I can type, for example 'su' and > > then with the up and down arrows I can scroll through my history and > > will only see the commands that begin with 'su'. In CentOS 5 this isn't > > the case. > > > > I have added some code to my inputrc file to make this work in CentOS 4 > > as follows: > > > > # Search History for previous used commands > > "\M-[A":history-search-backward > > "\M-[B":history-search-forward > > "\M-[C":forward-char > > "\M-[D":backward-char > > > > And this works well in CentOS 4 but I cannot get it to work in CentOS 5. > > Anyone know why or what I have to change? > > I usually just hit ctl-R for the reverse-i-search function. It's a > little annoying for people who don't use emacs, but it works. Yeah, the above is a lot simpler and faster. -- Regards Robert Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org