On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 13:27 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > I would love to list the steps that I took from history without the 
> > line
> > numbers...
> >
> > i.e.
> > history > /root/install.log
> >
> > puts line numbers in the file. How to simply get the commands?
> 
> 
> History is a shell built-in so it will depend on what you are running.  
> -h works some places. In bash it is more common to use fc to mess about 
> with the history file. The -n option to fc does what you want.
----
fc -n -l -[x] sort of worked but it left the space where the numbering
was at which would have necessitated another step.

Simon's cut command was perfect...

> quick and dirty and certainly a better way but, 
> 
> use cut
> 
> history |cut -f4,5,6,7,8,9 -d" " >/tmp/outfile

I wish that I could coalesce the cut command into my brain but when
usage seems valuable about once a year, it doesn't retain in my damaged
brain.

Thanks for the tip on fc - there is a ton about bash that I don't know.

Craig

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