Re: Issues with history substitution and its documentation

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/10/19 10:35 PM, Jim Monte wrote:

> There is an inconsistency with the documentation and behavior of the ^ word
> designator. According to documentation, it refers to the first argument but
> does not require a ':' before it if it starts the word designator. However,
> it does not act like the numerical word designator 1 at the end of a range.

Thanks for the report. This is a bug.

> [root@localhost ~]# echo a b c
> a b c
> [root@localhost ~]# echo !!:1-1
> echo a
> a
> [root@localhost ~]# echo a b c
> a b c
> [root@localhost ~]# echo !!:^-^
> echo a b^
> a b^
>
> Also it is not explicitly documented that :- is equivalent to :0-

Thanks, I'll add a note to the documentation.

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