-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/26/15 4:51 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/26/2015 01:21 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: >> >> What do you mean "ignore its effect"? You have newlines embedded >> in history entries; what do you plan to do about them? > > Can't history lines be recorded as $'...\n...' so as to be one line > per command, even when the command contained newlines?
The solution cannot be bash-specific; the history library is used by many other applications. - -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAlUUcf4ACgkQu1hp8GTqdKv/IQCfaR9tppTwWZlP2ElGv2oGYWdY j9cAnjOmU1rs5N+Jljc80aH0++qQdYRD =h0EB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----