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Frank Brenner
Asked: 2012-02-16 15:28:15 +0800 CST

Bash: Execute series of command from history

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How can I execute a series of commands from my bash history? For instance if I want to execute the commands numbered 34 to 42 in my bash history, I've tried things like:

for n in $(seq 34 42); do
   exec \!$n;
done

but that doesn't really it do the the trick, does it. Any ideas?

Thanks!

linux bash shell

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The best I can think of is something like this. Basically you pipe history into awk which prints lines with a number in a certain range. The results are passed to a sub-shell.

    history | awk '$1>32 && $1<42 {$1="";print substr($0,2)}' | bash

    Somewhat based on this question.

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  2. Unfortunately, it seems that History (and the equivalent fc command) is disabled in scripting. I haven't found any documentation as to why though, the closest being the tldp page explaining History and Bash.

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