[TriLUG] history

[Dan]

--On Monday, February 23, 2004 12:16:02 PM -0500 Stephen Hoffman 
<srhoffman at hofftech.net> 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".

If you're using bash (if not then why not <grin>)... the history 'command' 
is a builtin that is documented in the bash man page.  One of the cooler 
things I had set an alias up for was to run the previous command with 
substring substitution.  If I made a directory with

	mkdir dir1

I had an alias 'r' that would be

	r 1=2

and the command run would be

	mkdir dir2

It was ever so handy.

-- 
Dan