On 8/11/20 11:59 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> This is different from every other shell, and also looks like it's contrary
> to the POSIX spec:
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/fc.html#tag_20_44_05
>
> | When a range of commands is used, it shall not be an error to specify
> | first or last values that are not in the history list; fc shall
> | substitute the value representing the oldest or newest command in the
> | list, as appropriate. For example, if there are only ten commands in
> | the history list, numbered 1 to 10:
> |
> | fc -l
> | fc 1 99
> |
> | shall list and edit, respectively, all ten commands.
What's your opinion about what the `as appropriate' means? An out-of-range
`first' gets substituted with the first command in the history, and an out-
of-range `last' gets the last history entry? Bash does one thing, your
patch does another, but neither one does that.
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