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On 10/14/2014 06:09 PM, Kurtis Rader wrote:
>    : 1234:5 ; echo hello
>
> is the same as just typing
>
>    echo hello
>
> The colon command is mostly useful when you want the side effects from
> parsing the rest of the args without running a command.
>
Ah! Now that you explain it, it's as clear as Zeiss glass. Tx.  This 
means that I can just grab
a block of lines from .histfile and they are 'already' a script--no need 
to massage out those
numbers.  Most cool.  At the end of our suffering is enlightenment.