On Fri, 20 May 2011, Andrew Hills wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote:[...] wouldn't something akin tohistory | sort -r | sed '1d; s/^[ \t]*[0-9]*[ \t]*//' work just as well?
Didn't realize `sed` didn't have \d, but why [ \t] instead of \s?
[...] (Don't forget to escape your asterisks in sed.)
Why would you escape the asterisks here? It's not looking for literal asterisks.
-- Best, Ben
