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vips7L
3 months ago
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Better Shell History Search
The shell should just have better UX. If 5408 is the id of the command ran... just list that out in the printed table. Powershell and nushell do this really well.
kevin_thibedeau
3 months ago
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Because you can use the ID to recall a previous command with "!". This is a feature that predates Bash+readline.
mprovost
3 months ago
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History substitution with "!" goes back to Bill Joy's csh, 1979.
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