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CLI Magic: Bash history expansion

Thursday, July 21 2005 @ 03:05 AM EDT
Contributed by: glosser

We visit Linux.com for this tutorial on Bash history.
This week's CLI Magic -- by Shashank Sharma -- is all about history expansion. The Bourne-Again SHell (bash) has a major user base and the fact that it has incorporated some useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh) might be one of the reasons. History expansion, for example, was first implemented in csh.

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Entering the history command without any switches displays the history list with line numbers. If that's too much information, enter history N where N is the number of previously executed commands you want displayed.
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