[PLUG] Saving terminal commands

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Fri Feb 6 02:34:42 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 22:59 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:18:22 -0800

> 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?

shopt -s histverify

This is a bash built-in shell command that does exactly that. If you put
that in your ~/.bashrc, it should always be in effect.

Wil
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