I would assume that this is implied by "start-end".
I agree with you, and I think the documentation is fine. I was just
pointing out that specifying an invalid start/end element results in an
error and an exit status of 1, but specifying an invalid end-start range
results in silence and an ex
Also somewhat related, deleting a range of history only works if it's
specified oldest to newest. Deleting in the other direction is a noop
(no diagnostic either), e.g.:
history -d 20-10
does nothing if the range 10-20 exists, or prints an `out of range`
error otherwise. It probably makes
Bash Version: 5.1
Patch Level: 4
Release Status: release
Git Commit: f3a35a2d (current master)
I don't really know the contribution rules for bash; my apologies in
advance if I'm missing anything or otherwise doing something wrong.
Description:
`history -d -#` can sometimes fail with the erro
