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The history command has the following syntax in tcsh: history [-hTr] [n] history -S|-L|-M [filename] (+) history -c (+) The first form prints the history event list. If n is given only the n most recent events are printed or saved. With -h, the history list is printed without leading numbers.
$ # bash shell $ /bin/bash-c 'echo a{p,c,d,b}e' ape ace ade abe $ # A traditional shell does not produce the same output $ /bin/sh-c 'echo a{p,c,d,b}e' a{p,c,d,b}e When brace expansion is combined with wildcards, the braces are expanded first, and then the resulting wildcards are substituted normally.
Support for command history means that a user can recall a previous command into the command-line editor and edit it before issuing the potentially modified command. Shells that support completion may also be able to directly complete the command from the command history given a partial/initial part of the previous command.
Brian Jhan Fox (born 1959) is an American computer programmer and free software advocate. He is the original author of the GNU Bash shell , which he announced as a beta in June 1989. [ 1 ] He continued as the primary maintainer of bash until at least early 1993.
The C shell also introduced many features for interactive work, including the history and editing mechanisms, aliases, directory stacks, tilde notation, cdpath, job control and path hashing. On many systems, csh may be a symbolic link or hard link to TENEX C shell (tcsh), an improved version of Joy's original version.
GNU Readline is a software library that provides in-line editing and history capabilities for interactive programs with a command-line interface, such as Bash.It is currently maintained by Chet Ramey as part of the GNU Project.
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