[ale] tcsh history command question

[Dow Hurst]

Yes!! Thanks a bunch for that!  That was exactly what I was after!  It 
was amazing watching Bob work the shell to his advantage.  He had 
aliases and shell commands plus regular expressions syntax working for 
him so that changes were happening so fast I could hardly follow.  It's 
been a couple of years since he set up our VPN but that experience still 
resonates in my mind.  Thanks,
Dow

Fletch wrote:

>>>>>>"Dow" == Dow Hurst <dhurst at kennesaw.edu> writes:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>
>    Dow> I've seen Bob Toxen do this but can't remember the syntax.
>    Dow> Let's say you have a previous command you want to access and
>    Dow> edit in a simple way.  How could I easily incorporate a sed
>    Dow> s/X/Y/g type syntax into a history retrieval command?  Here
>    Dow> is my example of what I'd like to do:
>
>
>  
>
>>Aslan 58% cp /etc/stdcshrc ./nmarshal/.cshrc
>>...
>>Aslan 73% !58 s/cshrc/profile/g
>>    
>>
>
>
>You probably want:
>
>
>!58:gs,cshrc,profile,
>
>
>That should work in most anything with a csh-y history mechanism
>(i.e. (t?c|ba|z)sh; although why anyone would be using anything but
>the last . . . :).  As an aside / would work, I just tend to use , as
>a seperator out of habit as it avoids clashes with any /'s in paths.
>
>  
>

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