Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 81903
Missing fc and jobid builtin commands
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:49:59 EDT
Description of problem: The builtin commands fc and jobid return not found when executed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): /ash-0.3.8 How reproducible: Happens when ash used interactively Steps to Reproduce: 1.execute ash -i to get an interactive shell 2.execute one or more commands 3.execute fc -l Actual results: fc: not found or jobid: not found Expected results: history listing or the id of the current job Additional info: man page says the commands exist, but they don't appear in builtins.c in the source.
*** Bug 84450 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 90166 [details] Manual page patch, eliminating the noted commands.
The patch above fixes the man page, and will go into rawhide as soon as the next release is complete. In the meantime, packages including the fix are available from: http://people.redhat.com/lhh/
Forgot to say "why" the commands aren't available in the first place. Part of the reason has to do with the root of where ash came from, namely NetBSD. NetBSD has a library called 'libedit' which the history functions used in order to edit/change pre-entered commands. This library isn't currently available on Red Hat Linux. Also, ash is only really provided as a 'small' shell - a replacement when 'bash' isn't needed. ash.static is a very good shell for things like rescue disks, as it can execute fairly complex shell code with minimal space taken up on the disk: as shipped with RHL 8.0, ash.static is 500kb or so; bash (dynamic!) is around 620kb.
ash-0.3.8-11 should be in rawhide soon. Until such time, you man obtain it from: http://people.redhat.com/lhh/ash-0.3.8-11.i386.rpm http://people.redhat.com/lhh/ash-0.3.8-11.src.rpm