3.1. The bash shell
The most powerful and flexible administration tool on almost every UNIX-like system is the shell. The standard shell in a SuSE SLES for pSeries 8.0 is the Bourne again shell, or bash. It is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. Most sh scripts can be run by bash without modification.
Command history
The standard history mode on bash is emacs; to view all of the current settings of the shell, issue the set -o command:
# set -o
If you are more comfortable using vi than the emacs mode, use the set -o vi command.
The default history size is 500 entries, but this can be changed ...
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