16 Sep
2013
16 Sep
'13
7:07 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:27 AM, James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
I am obviously missing something basic here but can someone explain to me what is wrong with the first statement, which returns nothing?
$ history | grep ^su $ history | grep su 2997 su -l 3024 su -l 3050 su -l 3054 su -l
Someone else already pointed out the line numbers, but if you are doing this interactively, you probably really want bash's internal 'search-history' operations (usually control-r for reverse-search-history, but there are a bunch of options).
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