Re: Returning last parameter of a history command

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

zzapper wrote:
> Hi
> 
> how should this done in zsh-speak
> 
> history -n -1|sed 's/^.* //
> 
> Where the sed returns the last parameter

zmodload -i zsh/parameter
print ${${(z)history[$((HISTCMD-1))]}[-1]}

Adjust the line number as necessary: it's $((HISTCMD-1)) when you're
getting the previous line at the prompt but it depends where you are
relative to the line being updated.  Experiment.

Note that $history is an associative array; you need to get the line
number in the key exactly right.

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