why doesn't history work in a shell script?

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <1990Jun6.131927.22604 at cid.aes.doe.CA>,
afsipmh at cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel) writes:
|> ["history" doesn't work in a csh shell script]

  There are various things that don't work in shell scripts, and the
history mechanism is one of them.  In fact, doing something like "!!" or
"!-1" won't work either.

  Another example are the "fg" and "bg" operations.  Try this script:

    #!/bin/csh
    sleep 60 &
    fg

and you'll probably get this error:

    No job control in this shell.

  I'm not sure what the solution to these problems is, either than using
another shell :-).

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