linux console command line history

[Michele Simionato]

On Jul 20, 11:38 pm, "kak... at gmail.com" <kak... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi to all,
> I 'm writing a linux console app with sockets. It's basically a client
> app that fires commands in a server.
> For example:
> $log user 55
> $sessions list
> $server list etc.
> What i want is, after entering some commands, to press the up arrow
> key and see the previous commands that i have executed.
> Any hints? Any examples?
>
> Antonis

You may find interesting to look at the source code for plac (http://
micheles.googlecode.com/hg/plac/doc/plac_adv.html). The readline
support (including command history and autocompletion) is implemented
in the ReadlineInput class (see http://code.google.com/p/micheles/source/browse/plac/plac_ext.py).
If you just want command history you can use rlwrap (http://
freshmeat.net/projects/rlwrap).