On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:09:23PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote:
> Thank you Walt!

You're welcome.  :-)

> I can't believe I didn't find that! In case anyone else wants to view
> more info on "history expansion" with bash...
> 
>     http://www.kashpureff.org/nic/linux/texinfo/bash_6.html
> 
> or more simply
> 
>     man bash
> 
> Doh!  ;)

Well, it's not the easiest thing in the world to find on the bash man
page.  I first learned about this trick in the O'Reilly book Unix
Power Tools.  Even knowing that it's possible, I always forget the
sequence and end up hunting through the man page for several minutes
before I find it again.

Walt

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