On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:27 AM, James B. Byrne <byrn...@harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
> I am obviously missing something basic here but can someone explain to me what
> is wrong with the first statement, which returns nothing?
>
> $ history | grep ^su
> $ history | grep su
> 2997 su -l
> 3024 su -l
> 3050 su -l
> 3054 su -l
Someone else already pointed out the line numbers, but if you are
doing this interactively, you probably really want bash's internal
'search-history' operations (usually control-r for
reverse-search-history, but there are a bunch of options).
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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