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Old 8th January 2011
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Default find last or special command I run with /bin/csh

I use FreeBSD 8.1 Release AMD64 with Gnome and shell of root user is csh and shell of normal user is zsh .
in normal user when I press
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Ctrl+r
I see this
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bck-i-search: _
and for example when I type
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ss
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grep -i "the" messages
and I can find last command has ss .
this way is great and I can find last command I run it before very easy and fast and I can find all command I run before by type first letter
can I have something like this with root use and csh shell ?
I do not want change root shell and I want use csh .
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Try TCSH(1). Both CSH(1) and TCSH(1) have a history mechanism but TCSH(1) has more features. If you read the TCSH(1) manual, the sections with a (+) denote the differences.
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but I do not want change my default shell
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Try the history built-in command and look-up the alias feature.

PS: The first thing I do after I reinstall my system is to copy .tcshrc in my $HOME and install TCSH(1).
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Actually, csh and tcsh are one and the same on FreeBSD. /bin/csh is a hard link to /bin/tcsh (Check the inode).

Back to the original question, If you want zsh as root, but don't want to change the default shell, you can do is just start zsh by typing it after you used su to become root.

As for your history search command, as far as I know csh isn't able to do exactly that.

csh does have a more or less similar option called autoexpand. If you type ls it and press up, it will only show you the commands that start with ls.

IMHO tcsh is a fairly usable interactive shell, but many people are put off by the not-always-equally-sane default options.
Here is what I use, and would personally consider a slightly more sane cshrc:
http://rwxrwxrwx.net/csh.cshrc

Save it as /root/.cshrc overwrite the file that is already there.
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Actually, csh and tcsh are one and the same on FreeBSD. /bin/csh is a hard link to /bin/tcsh (Check the inode).

Back to the original question, If you want zsh as root, but don't want to change the default shell, you can do is just start zsh by typing it after you used su to become root.

As for your history search command, as far as I know csh isn't able to do exactly that.

csh does have a more a similar option called autoexpand. If you type ls it and press up, it will only show you the commands that start with ls.

IMHO tcsh is a fairly usable interactive shell, but many people are put off by the not-always-equally-sane default options.
Here is what I use, and would personally consider a slightly more sane cshrc:
http://rwxrwxrwx.net/csh.cshrc

Save it as /root/.cshrc overwrite the file that is already there.
if csh has better search for old command , it was better.
I use csh with root user
and I use ZSH with normal user . normal use use zsh and do not use csh
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What that a question? Because if it was I didn't quite understand it (Sorry ... ).
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