Can a command be stuffed into History?
J|rgen Jensen
jensen at diku.dk
Mon Apr 15 08:45:47 AEST 1991
(I've directed followups to comp.unix.questions.)
asg at sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Varney) writes:
>In article <SQUASH.91Apr4184954 at heat.math.ufl.edu> squash at math.ufl.edu (Jonathan King) writes:
>}Could some kind soul tell me how to write an alias (or a script)
>}which, after having done something (eg. an lpr command)
>}places on the history list, a particular command.
>} My intention is to later execute this command with !! .
>} If this cannot be done, is it possible to have the alias type a
>}command to the Unix prompt, so that I can hit <CR> later to execute it?
>}
>}Jonathan squash at math.ufl.edu
>I believe ksh can do it
>print -s whateveryouwantaddedtoyourhistorylist
>hope this helps
> Bruce
In a non-wimpy csh:
alias youralias 'yourcmd; echo yournextcmd > tmpfile; source -h tmpfile'
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