What's "history -m"? Doesn't that just look for items in the history
containing "-m"?

"Word" sounds like you're reading about expansions, as in:

!! - most recent command
!!:$ - last word of most recent command
!!:^ - same as :1, first argument word of most recent command
!!:0 - just the command name of most recent command

Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>


On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 14:01 Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:

> Trying to do fancier things with history I'm clearly not understanding
> something.  Doc says '^' is first word in a history entry and '$' is the
> last. But:
>
> % history -m "^" 1                  # Shows everything
> % history -m "^nosuchstring" 1      # Also shows everything
> % history -m "$" 1                  # Shows nothing
>
> ... so I'm obviously missing something.
>
>