C Shell history, backprimes Q's -- Noddy Level

Robert Steven Glickstein bobg+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Apr 6 11:45:41 AEST 1989


> *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.unix.questions: 4-Apr-89 C Shell history,*
> *backprimes.. Ian Watson at hpopd.HP.COM (919)*
> I've just entered a command 'foo bar parm', when what I wanted was
> 'foobar parm'.  I've tried the history mechanism of the C Shell, but
> it seems obsessed with treating the erroneous command as a sequence
> of words, and so I can't seem to get the substitute to recognise
> 'o b', as this spans words.

% foo bar parm
foo: You're an idiot
% !!:1!!:2 !$
foobar parm
foobar: You're a genius
%



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                                 Bob Glickstein
                               ITC Database Group
                          Information Technology Center
                           Carnegie Mellon University
                                 Pittsburgh, PA
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