[PLUG] Saving terminal commands

chris (fool) mccraw gently at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 07:18:06 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 22:59, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:


> I need something that pops the command into the terminal, but lets me
> edit it before running it. I don't mind hitting the Enter button by
> myself. Really, I can manage that. :)
>
> Is there a way to make it just give me the command but not run it?

sure.  run 'shopt -s histverify' first.
(you can stick that command in your .bashrc or .profile to be run non
every login if you want the setting to "stick" between restarts of
your terminal window.



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