On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell <suckl...@benizi.com> wrote: > Why would you escape the asterisks here? It's not looking for literal > asterisks.
Oops, you wouldn't. But, knowing the output format of history, I'd change the asterisks to \+, which does require escaping in sed, which is the half of the thought that found its way onto the page. --Andrew Hills