Re: "r" (repeat command) ???

From: Nicholas Dronen (ndronen_at_io.frii.com)
Date: 06/09/03 

Date: 09 Jun 2003 15:28:11 GMT

Bradders <info@futurecode.co.uk> wrote:
B> On "some" AIX systems, I can get AIX to repeat the lastcommand I just typed,
B> simply by typing "r" followd by <CR>. You can also use "r ./usr/" to repeat
B> the last command you used that began with "./usr/" and so on

B> Does anyone know where this command is how one activates it as this only
B> seems to work on some systems and not on others (all on oslevel 4.3.3)

I don't have an AIX box here to check, but I think it's a non-standard
alias (i.e., provided by IBM).

Run 'alias' to find out.

Are you using the same shell on each machine?

Regards,

Nicholas 

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