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Old 07-07-2009
ctrl-o in bash on os X leopard -- how does it work exactly?
I'm going through "learning the bash shell" by newham and rosenblatt. I'm trying to ctro-O to execute and then go on to the next command in the history list, ctrl-o again, etc. (I'm just trying to get a feel for it in case I want to use it). But ctrl-o does nothing. Can someone help me out as to what I'm doing wrong?

And what does it mean when it says that the ! key Starts a history substitution?
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Old 07-08-2009
Try this for the mysterious ! :
[1] key in a bunch of commands; say 5 commands
[2] type 'history'
[3] now type '!'

see what happens, and then play with options/arguments to !

Good luck!
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Old 07-08-2009
I tried that, and when I typed ! I got this message:

-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

Can you explain what is meant by ! being a builtin command? I have to say these man pages aren't the easiest to understand -- is there some kind of book that can tell me how to decipher them? Smilie How do I know what arguments there are for the command?
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Old 07-08-2009
Built-in commands are commands included within the shell itself. Take a look @ Bash Reference Manual.

For info about ! expansion: Bash Reference Manual
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Old 07-08-2009
What I meant to ask is: does the ! by itself do anything? It was included in the list of event designators in my book, separately, followed by other arguments (like !n, for example).
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Old 07-08-2009
No, it doesn't do anything by itself. It needs arguments afaik. Apologize for not being clear about this earlier.
 
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