🚀 go-pugleaf

Ben <bgold12@gmail.com> writes:
>I've already figured out a way to do this but I suspect there are
>simpler/faster/more elegant solutions that exist.
>
>The objective is to get the command history number of the command that
>was just executed, but do it from a script (which seems to prevent
>access to the $HISTCMD variable, which would've been nice; any
>thoughts on this?). Here's my solution:
>
>history 2| sed -n 1p| sed -e "s/^\s*\([0-9]\+\).*/\1/";
>
>Notice the (command complexity) / (problem complexity) ratio. Can
>anyone improve it?

Note that if you have multiple shells open, they'll be sharing the
same history file.    Depending on why you want the last command
executed, this could be a problem.

You can arrange in your .profile/.kshrc/.bashrc file for each shell
to have a different history file by setting the HISTFILE environment
variable to a session-unique name.

scott