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Re: history puzzle

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From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: history puzzle
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 14:12:28 -0400
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What's "history -m"? Doesn't that just look for items in the history containing "-m"?

"Word" sounds like you're reading about expansions, as in:

!! - most recent command

!!:$ - last word of most recent command

!!:^ - same as :1, first argument word of most recent command

!!:0 - just the command name of most recent command

Mark J. Reed <markjreed@xxxxxxxxx>

On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 14:01 Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Trying to do fancier things with history I'm clearly not understanding something. Doc says '^' is first word in a history entry and '$' is the last. But:

% history -m "^" 1                 # Shows everything
% history -m "^nosuchstring" 1    # Also shows everything
% history -m "$" 1                # Shows nothing

... so I'm obviously missing something.

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