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in thread command line history?

exactly, just proving that you can't execute history because there is no such program with this name.

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Re^4: command line history?
by bv (Friar) on Dec 10, 2009 at 18:47 UTC

    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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