[TriLUG] history

[Joseph Tate]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> Got a question about functionality that may or may not exist, but I
> certainly don't want to start writing programs that already exist...
> 
> I want to be able to use the commands out of "history".  When I type a
> long drawn out command one time I want to be able to call that same
> command much like bash does with tab completion or to be able to
> re-execute entry #100 but don't really want to alias it.  This may seem
> lazy, but I am not one for jumping from keyboard to mouse back to
> keyboard...I want to use one or the other...and some systems don't even
> have a mouse.
> 
> Does this functionality exist under another name or exist at all?  RTFM
> produced little on "history", Where else can I look?
> 
> TIA,
> Steve

!100 will execute item 100 in your command history.  I generally do a 
history | grep something, and then !thenumber

Joseph