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[Chris MacLeod]

the bash built-in 'fc' is also very helpful.

fc [regex] will open the last command to match regex in $EDITOR then
once you save-quit that buffer it will run said command.

fc -l will also list history entries so something like

fc -l -10 will list the last 10 history entries, while

fc 0 -10 will bring up $EDITOR with the last 10 entries in the buffer
(and then run all 10 if you want)

there is also some replacement that you can do with -s.

Stick

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:16:02PM -0500, 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
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