Re: history position out of range

[DennisW]

On Jan 13, 2:29 pm, Sérgio Monteiro Basto <sergi...@sapo.pt> wrote:
> Hi,
> How I delete history from entry 2 to entry 22
>
> $ history -d 2:22
> bash: history: 2:22: history position out of range
>
> man history say:
>
> history -d offset
>
> where is define, the sintax of the offset?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --
> Sérgio M. B.

I believe it only takes a single value rather than a range.

You can do this:

$ for i in {22..2}; do history -d $i; done

Note the reversal of the range.