*Thank you very much.*


On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 12:17 AM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 6:46 AM Peter Stephenson
> <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you need to load from files before search, fc has numerous options
> > for that, including one to load to a local context so you don't pollute
> > the global history.
>
> In particular
> fc -p -a /dev/null $(wc -l < $filename) 0
> fc -R $filename
>
> will load the contents of $filename into $history for the scope of the
> containing function, and then discard it when the function returns.
>
>