Btw, have you tried to hit F7 after running few commands in windows CMD prompt and sqlplus in it. Cool feature :) Tanel. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeffrey Beckstrom To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; oracle-db-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; ORACLE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; oracle-rdbms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 2:08 AM Subject: sqlplus command history In windows, at the sqlplus command prompt you can hit the UP Arrow key to get previous commands. How can I do the same in Linux?