Hi Dan How about « fc -ln » ?
It might be helpful to have explicit cross-references between the help displays for «history» and «fc». -Martin On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 at 15:40, Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org> wrote: > $ help history > should mention how in the world one is supposed to just print the plain > history, > without any line numbers or time stamps. > > You might say, "Just strip it off with perl or sed." Well, fine. Then > mention that in help history. > > Currently one needs massive superfund environmental clean-up effort > workarounds, e.g., > $ HISTTIMEFORMAT=' ' history | perl -pwle 's/^\s+\S+\s+//' > > Better yet, add a > history -j: Just print history, with no added timestamps or line numbers, > etc. > > Or OK, there's HISTTIMEFORMAT. How about also a HISTFORMAT (default " %5n > %t %h\n" or whatever,) so one could use "%h\n" for "just give me the > history item." > >