[NTLUG:Discuss] Silly noobie question - history

[Fred James]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:19:25AM -0600, Richard Geoffrion wrote:
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>>Stephen Klein wrote:
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>>>Michael Barnes wrote:
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>>>>At a command line, I use the up arrow and scroll through the history 
>>>>list looking for a command.  
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>>>The [Page Down] key will take you back to a the empty command line, and 
>>>the beginning of the history.  [Page up] will take you to the first 
>>>command in the history.
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>>OK... so what is with the ! ??  Where is the documentation that says 
>>that typing
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>>!cat
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>>Will run the last 'cat' command that was previously run??
>>What else can you do with ! ??
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>Check the bash(1) manual page, in the section that begins
>"HISTORY EXPANSION".
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>Pm
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All
Try this resource <http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html> 
as well
Regards
Fred James