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Tagged with history-expansion shell-script
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How does history print to the terminal?
EDIT: As per @JdeBP's comment, I've learned that the history command and the history recall functionality of interactive terminals are two separate things. I am, however, still curious about how the ...
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Using interactive's shell history expansion inside a script
I have the following Bash script
set -o histexpand
set -o history
pwd
lc="!!"
which, when I run it in an interactive shell, prints
/home/user
lc="pwd"
I'd like to, instead of getting lc=pwd, get ...
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History expansion in scripts [duplicate]
I have the following Bash script
case $- in (*H*) echo enabled ;; (*) echo disabled ;; esac
set -H
case $- in (*H*) echo enabled ;; (*) echo disabled ;; esac
pwd
last_command="!!"
echo $last_command
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Sync two folders and on success copy one file from a location to the other
I am using rsync command to sync two folder and on success of rysnc I want to copy a file success and while copying append source folder name parameter like Success_FolderName.I am using $(basename !:...
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History substitution fails when implemented in shell script [duplicate]
The below command works in command line
rsync -avh -r /Source/09_03_2016/ /Destination/
echo $(basename !:3)
Output 09_03_2016
But when I do this in shell script it does not work
#! /bin/bash
/...
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Persistent Bash history between detached processes
I haven't yet been able to find this among the Bash documentation so I was hoping it could get answered if I asked it here. Is there any way that I can, on execution of a script, branch its history (...
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Livesearch with first 10 matches as preview for zsh-history?
I have seen a history-livesearch with a preview, that shows the 10 first matches in the history in a list below the BUFFER-line, which is updated on every keystroke, and acts like the standard ctrl+r ...
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