Re: [ksh] Show command number in shell prompt

On 24.09.2024 19:40, hymie! wrote:

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I'm still irritated; if I see in one shell session a value of 11059
(which is an indication that the numbers created by '!' don't wrap)
I'm astonished that the counting in a new window will start at 1000
(and not at 1 or at the maximum previous value).

 
I don't use this feature, and I don't have ksh, just bash and zsh.
Bash has separate options for
 
              \!     the history number of this command
              \#     the command number of this command
 
I don't know what your goal is, but maybe ksh has these two options, and you
want the other one?

In ksh I know only of '!', a single unquoted literal exclamation mark.

But never mind. - My goal was just to not constantly see in my shell
instances what appears to me to look like an inconsistency. - Another
(bash-)prompt posting inspired me to post. But I also know only few
folks use ksh nowadays, most use bash, so I didn't really expect any
"solution" (sort of). Functionally there's no apparent drawback, so I
can live with it. Thanks.

Janis