# History

The history command prints or saves previous commands in the history list, or reexecutes a previous entry in the list. To modify the behavior of this command, see set history (p. ).

Input lines with history as their first command are not stored in the command history.

Examples:

         history               # show the complete history
         history 5             # show last 5 entries in the history
         history quiet 5       # show last 5 entries without entry numbers
         history "hist.gp"     # write the complete history to file hist.gp
         history "hist.gp" append # append the complete history to file hist.gp
         history 10 "hist.gp"  # write last 10 commands to file hist.gp
         history 10 "|head -5 >>diary.gp" # write 5 history commands using pipe
         history ?load         # show all history entries starting with "load"
         history ?"set c"      # like above, several words enclosed in quotes
         hi !reread            # execute last entry starting with "reread"
         hist !"set xr"        # like above, several words enclosed in quotes
         hist !55              # reexecute the command at history entry 55