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
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.