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

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/24/24 11:39 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2024, at 11:01 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > P.S., "\t%s" seems to have an extra space squeezed between them with
> > bash: "\t %s",
> > unless perhaps the spec says that %s always starts with a space.
>
> The standard doesn't say that, so in native mode bash's `fc' is
> indeed slightly nonconformant, but in POSIX mode it does omit the
> extra space.

That character is a `*' if the line has been modified (has an existing
set of edits to undo) and ` ' if not. This is what `history' does.

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