[PLUG] Re: bash command line editing

Brian Horan bhoran at hexdev.com
Sun Sep 21 01:05:03 UTC 2003


cool!

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 21:40, Keith Morse wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Brian Horan wrote:
> 
> > my bad ... that isn't the current command line...
> > 
> 
> But it is the previous command.  I did find that if the command line 
> contained a ";" that the substitution only proceeds up to that ";".
> 
> thanks for the pointer, just what I needed.
> 
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 20:07, Brian Horan wrote:
> > > ^text_to_replace^replacement_text
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 20:16, Keith Morse wrote:
> > > > Hopefully a quick one.  Searching "man bash" and the O'Reilly book haven't 
> > > > come up with an answer.
> > > > 
> > > > Can one do a substitution on the current command line to the effect of 
> > > > s/sometext/someothertest/  ?
> > > > 
> > > > 
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