Real-time command history sharing between interactive shells

[Chuck Swiger]

On Nov 29, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
>> zsh is a pretty good interactive shell (it finally weaned me off  
>> tcsh),
>> as well as supporting a full range of redirection and control
>> constructs. You should look at that, in particular the
>>         set -o sharehistory
>> option (which does half of what you're after).
>>
>> Combine this with a shared .history file and you should get the  
>> effect
>> you're after.
>
> I think, I'll follow your advice. It's high time I forgot about
> csh, but I wonder if you tried to change root's shell to zsh?

ZSH is a remarkably good choice for a shell.  It's as compatible with  
standard Bourne shell scripts as Bash is, only it also supports some  
nice options to help people familiar with CSH make the transition  
(ie, providing mechanisms to convert "setenv" to "export" and so forth).

It works fine as root's shell, although I would encourage you to make  
sure that your toor account still works with /bin/sh, especially if / 
usr/local is on a different filesystem.

-- 
-Chuck