Re: Add option to just print history, with no added timestamps or line numbers

[Martin D Kealey]

Hi Dan

How about « fc -ln » ?

It might be helpful to have explicit cross-references between the help
displays for «history» and «fc».

-Martin

On Sun, 24 Mar 2024 at 15:40, Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:

> $ help history
> should mention how in the world one is supposed to just print the plain
> history,
> without any line numbers or time stamps.
>
> You might say, "Just strip it off with perl or sed." Well, fine. Then
> mention that in help history.
>
> Currently one needs massive superfund environmental clean-up effort
> workarounds, e.g.,
> $ HISTTIMEFORMAT=' ' history | perl -pwle 's/^\s+\S+\s+//'
>
> Better yet, add a
> history -j: Just print history, with no added timestamps or line numbers,
> etc.
>
> Or OK, there's HISTTIMEFORMAT. How about also a HISTFORMAT (default " %5n
> %t %h\n" or whatever,) so one could use "%h\n" for "just give me the
> history item."
>
>