Re: psql possible TODO

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
> > > > Just like bash.
> > >
> > > What we have is just like bash --- at least the parts of it that I use.
> >
> > This reminds me of the old csh function where you could recall things by
> > numbers and do search/replace on them. The capability was so hard to
> > use I could imagine anyone _normal_ using it.
>
> Except that this has nothing to do with that. This is *standard* feature
> set for the unix shell:
>
> 804 history
> 805 joe bin/starttest.sh
> 806 history
>
> Oh... that's right, its call starttest.sh:
>
> !805
>
> Except for PostgreSQL it would be:
>
> postgres=# \s
>
> 1 SELECT * from cmd_pg_stat_all_tables ;
> 2 SELECT count(*) from cmd_pg_stat_all_tables ;
> 3 SELECT count(*) from cmd_pg_stat_database;
>
> postgres=# !1
>

Make sure if you do this you support the other variant. Ie, in bash
instead of !806 you could have said !-2, which is execute the second to
last command.

And how about
$ ls *.foo
...
$ ^ls^rm

?

:)

>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
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