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Re: history -s from inside function replaces last command rather than ad


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: history -s from inside function replaces last command rather than adding to it
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:57:24 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13)

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 17:48:15 +0000, Bug Maybefound wrote:
> I assumed it must be from a more recent bash than I have since mine doesn’t
> have it:
> 
> $ help history
> <snip>
>       -p        perform history expansion on each ARG and display the result
>                 without storing it in the history list
>       -s        append the ARGs to the history list as a single entry
> 
>     If FILENAME is given, it is used as the history file.  Otherwise,
> <snip>

The output of "help" is not always complete documentation for a given
builtin.  The man page may have more information than the help command.
And the info pages may have more information than the man page (rarely).



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