in reply to command line history?

toolic meant history is a shell built-in, like a bash arg, there's no program history

try  which history

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Re^2: command line history?
by brp4h (Acolyte) on Dec 10, 2009 at 17:35 UTC
    which history comes back with "no history in <list of PATH variables>"
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      exactly, just proving that you can't execute history because there is no such program with this name.
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        Bash provides 'type', which will tell you how a command would be interpreted.

        bash$ type history
history is a shell builtin

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        @_=qw;
Just another Perl hacker,;
;$_=q=print
"@_"= and eval;

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