Re: Home made backup system

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
...
> History expansion is a bloody nightmare.  I recommend simply turning
> it off and living without it.  Of course, that's a personal preference,
> and you're free to continue banging your head against it, if you feel
> that the times it helps you outweigh the times that it hurts you.

  i only use a few commands regularly and have them either
aliased or stuck in history for me in my .bashrc
(i start every session by history -c to get rid of
anything and then use history -s "command" so pretty
much my routine when signing on in the morning is to
do !1 and then !2, !3 if i need to do a dist-upgrade.

!1 is apt-get update & fetchnews
!2 is apt-get upgrade
!3 is apt-get dist-upgrade


...
> ... and then, to add insult to injury, the command with the failed history
> expansion isn't even recorded in the shell's history, so you can't just
> "go up" and edit the line.  You have to start all over from scratch, or
> copy and paste the command with the mouse like some kind of Windows user.

  ha, yeah...

  i rarely use shell recording or other tools like
that but once in a while i've been rescued by my
habit of cat'ing the contents of a file to the terminal
to look at it instead of using an editor (and having
an infinite scroll window).


  songbird