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Re: history puzzle

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From: Kannan Varadhan <kvaradhan3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: history puzzle
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:54:54 -0700
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Aren't you basically asking zsh to show you empty strings so nothing comes back?

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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2024 11:00 AM
To: Zsh Users
Subject: history puzzle

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.

References:
- history puzzle
  - From: Ray Andrews

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