Re: [PATCH] fc: trim range instead of erroring out

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/11/20 11:59 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> As I use/try/test many shells, I'm in the habit of using POSIX commands
> such as 'fc -l 1' to list the complete history.
> 
> If there have been more than $HISTSIZE command, the list is trimmed at the
> beginning without renumbering, and bash errors out:
> 
> $ fc -l 1
> bash-5.0: fc: history specification out of range
> 
> This is different from every other shell, and also looks like it's contrary
> to the POSIX spec:
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/fc.html#tag_20_44_05

Thanks for the report and fix.

Chet

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