On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: >> As a special case, `fc -l -0' usually prints itself but not in the >> empty history (or HISTSIZE=1) case. > > Yeah, that's a special case, but not when there are no commands in > the history list.
Thanks for the explanation. FWIW my less-degenerate use case was getting the just-entered command in PS0 but `history 1' should probably do just as well in this case.