Re: history

[Simon Tibble <simon@tibble.net>]

On 03/09/11 00:05, shawn wilson wrote:
> what does this mean:
> 
>   706  perl -e '$str = "a b c"; my $a = /(\s+)/; print "$a\n";'
>   707* perl -e '$str = "a b c"; my $a = /(\s+)/; print "$a\n";'
>   708  perl -e '$str = "a"; (my $a, $b = $str) =~ /{.)(.)/ ? ( $1, $2
> ) : ( $_, $_ ); print "$a\n";'
> 
> ie, 707* - i've never seen this before.
> 
> btw, i don't remember wtf i was trying to do here so pay no attention
> to my code :)
> 
> 

When using the history(3) command to display command line history in
bash(1) a sequential listing appears.  On your line 707, the asterisk
"*" is present to indicate the line was modified before execution.

(Ref: Manual page bash(1) line 2598)


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