On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 02:47:44PM +0100, Biltong wrote:
> I looked under
> help history
> I can't see fc mentioned.
The builtin "help" only gives you a short summary of a single command's
options. It is not an exhaustive reference. For the complete story,
you must read the man page, or the web
On 3/13/12 9:47 AM, Biltong wrote:
> I looked under
> help history
> I can't see fc mentioned.
Well, yes. `help history' displays information about the history builtin.
The text I quoted was from the manual page.
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I looked under
help history
I can't see fc mentioned.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012, at 09:21 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 3/13/12 9:18 AM, Biltong wrote:
> > Great! Thanks. Would it be good to mention fc under history in the
> > manpage?
>
> This is from the HISTORY section:
>
> "The builtin command fc
On 3/13/12 9:18 AM, Biltong wrote:
> Great! Thanks. Would it be good to mention fc under history in the
> manpage?
This is from the HISTORY section:
"The builtin command fc (see SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below) may be used
to list or edit and re-execute a portion of the history list. The his-
tor
Great! Thanks. Would it be good to mention fc under history in the
manpage?
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012, at 08:43 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 3/13/12 5:27 AM, Biltong wrote:
> > To make copy-pasting between different terminals work better, would it
> > be possible for the history built-in to support an op
On 3/13/12 5:27 AM, Biltong wrote:
> To make copy-pasting between different terminals work better, would it
> be possible for the history built-in to support an option to suppress
> line numbers?
fc -n -l low high
e.g.,
fc -n -l 50 530
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On 3/13/2012 5:27 AM, Biltong wrote:
To make copy-pasting between different terminals work better, would it
be possible for the history built-in to support an option to suppress
line numbers?
Why would you want that?
507 spam xxx.eml
508 cd .jpilot
509 grep -i poisson AddressDB.pdb
To make copy-pasting between different terminals work better, would it
be possible for the history built-in to support an option to suppress
line numbers?
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