Re: history command

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Author: Chris Gehlker
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: history command

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.
--
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