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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: subsitutions and beginning of lines.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:23:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <151013172339.ZM30911@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <561D7AB4.7030206@eastlink.ca>

On Oct 13,  2:42pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} BTW, is there some way of asking history not to search
} thru a given number of entries, but to continue searching up to
} a given number of hits?

What defines a "hit" here?  Your "history" command isn't "searching"
AT ALL.  Rather it's your series of "grep" commands that are doing
the searching.  There's no way an argument to the "history" command
can tell it how many times "grep" of its output is going to succeed.

So it sounds like what you really want is

    eval history -r -n -$HISTSIZE $sstring | head $nnumber

That is, dump the entire history, grep it, and then show the most
recent few events that match the greps.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-14  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-11 19:12 Ray Andrews
2015-10-11 20:09 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-10-11 23:05   ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-12  9:34     ` Peter Stephenson
2015-10-12 15:44       ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-12 17:07         ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-13  2:29           ` Bart Schaefer
2015-10-13  2:50             ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-13  5:03               ` Bart Schaefer
2015-10-13  5:24                 ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-13 19:58                   ` Bart Schaefer
2015-10-13 21:42                     ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-14  0:23                       ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2015-10-14  5:03                         ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-12  2:26 ` Daniel Shahaf
2015-10-12 15:53   ` Ray Andrews
2015-10-12 16:42     ` Peter Stephenson

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