On 8/20/20 9:08 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> Op 12-08-20 om 16:40 schreef Chet Ramey:
>> 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?
>
> Yes,
Op 12-08-20 om 16:40 schreef Chet Ramey:
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?
Yes, that was my intention.
Bash does one thing, your
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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 speci
On 8/11/20 11:59 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> As I use/try/test many shells, I'm in the habit of using POSIX commands
> such as 'fc -l 1' to list the complete history.
>
> If there have been more than $HISTSIZE command, the list is trimmed at the
> beginning without renumbering, and bash errors out
