[CentOS] easy BASH question

Mon Sep 16 20:14:07 UTC 2013
James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>

On Mon Sep 16 16:34:31 UTC 2013, zGreenfelder zgreenfelder at gmail.com wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:27 PM,
> James B. Byrne <byrnejb at 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

> there are numbers at the start of the line?

Duh!  Thanks.  I could not see the forest for the trees I guess. I ended up
with the following as I wanted a visual scan of all variants not just the most
recent:

history | cut -f1-3 -d " " --complement | grep ^su

This is in the bash shell on CentOS-6.4.


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