Installing rlwrap on Amazon linux

This is an utility which provides history for different kind of commands like sqlite3, openssl etc. It also allows you to navigate through the history using up/down arrows or using search command control + R.

Download the binary package using following command -

64-bit processor
[naveen:~]$ wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/r/rlwrap-0.42-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

32-bit processor
[naveen:~]$ wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/Packages/r/rlwrap-0.42-1.el6.i686.rpm

Use yum command to install it.

64-bit processor
[naveen:~]$ sudo yum install rlwrap-0.42–1.el7.x86_64.rpm

32-bit processor
[naveen:~]$ sudo yum install rlwrap-0.42–1.el6.i686.rpm

Verification

[naveen:~]$ which rlwrap
/usr/bin/rlwrap

Complete list of rlwrap package for different kinds of Linux distributions.