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Re: Returning last parameter of a history command

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From: zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Returning last parameter of a history command
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:23:50 +0000 (UTC)
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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:200609221457.k8MEvAhC028569
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> 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]}
> 
Thanx PWS

I have adapted this to

print ${${(z)$(history -n -1)}[-1]}

so that I can use on a generic command

I was not able to tell if any of the 3 versions was faster





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