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Using history expansion in a bash alias or function


Using history expansion in a bash alias or function - Stack Overflow

History expansion is performed immediately after a complete line is read, before the shell breaks it into words. You can use the builtin fc command.

How can I alias a history expansion in zsh?

You can't, history expansion happens before alias or parameter expansion. I personally hate history expansion and is the first thing I ...

how to expand aliases inline in bash? - Super User

The functions alias-expand-line and history-and-alias-expand-line are not bound by default, but you can bind them by adding lines similar to the ...

Bash Reference Manual - GNU.org

If enabled, history expansion will be performed unless an ' ! ' appearing in double quotes is escaped using a backslash. The backslash preceding ...

Bash aliases you can't live without - Opensource.com

A Bash alias is a method of supplementing or overriding Bash commands with new ones. Bash aliases make it easy for users to customize their experience in a ...

Bash History Builtins (Bash Reference Manual) - GNU.org

If ename is not given, the value of the following variable expansion is used: ${FCEDIT:-${EDITOR:-vi}} . This says to use the value of the FCEDIT variable if ...

Your .bashrc modifications and additions - EndeavourOS Forum

I use this quite often. # Expand alias with key binding "Control+Space". ... shell functions used inside activate_bash_bindings() goes here...

why even use aliases instead of just functions? : r/bash - Reddit

The syntax for aliases is longer and more clumsy than a function. It doesn't make things any simpler. Alias seem implemented very much same as functions ...

Can I pass arguments to an alias command? - bash - Ask Ubuntu

Aliases don't take arguments. With an alias like alias foo='bar $1' , the $1 will be expanded by the shell to the shell's first argument ...

Bash aliases best practice - Reddit

For what it's worth, I store general-use aliases and functions in .bash_aliases, and I store aliases/functions for administrative tasks in a ...

Display or create a command alias - IBM

When the shell performs alias substitution, it checks to see if value ends with a blank. If so, the shell also checks the next word of the command line for ...

Magic Aliases: A Layering Loophole in the Bourne Shell

The helper shell function restores the original shell context which was saved by the alias (either before or after doing something with the arguments it was ...

Aliases and functions in bash - LinkedIn

... command sequence: $ alias tf='terraform' But aliases are very crude as they are not much more than a simple substitution. Bash also has ...

2. Shell Command Language

This variable, when and only when an interactive shell is invoked, shall be subjected to parameter expansion (see Parameter Expansion) by the shell and the ...

Quoting, substitutions, aliases — Linux shell tutorial documentation

Command line processing and quoting · history expansion · brace expansion ( {1..9} ) · parameter and variable expansion ( $VAR , ${VAR} ) · command substitution ( ...

14 Expansion - zsh

History expansion allows you to use words from previous command lines in the command line you are typing. This simplifies spelling corrections.

bash(1) - Linux manual page - Michael Kerrisk

... history expansion as well as all of the shell word expansions ... bash attempts programmable completion using the command word resulting from the expanded alias.

3.5. Aliases

This means that one may alias ls to ls -F, for instance, and Bash will not try to recursively expand the replacement text. If the last character of the alias ...

bash-builtins - bash built-in commands, see bash(1) - Ubuntu Manpage

A trailing space in value causes the next word to be checked for alias substitution when the alias is expanded. For each name in the argument list for which no ...

Bash Specific Features - MIT

Runs command with arg ignoring shell functions. If you have a shell function ... Up to three characters which control history expansion, quick substitution, and ...