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Korn Shell Builtins

This section describes Bash builtin commands taken from ksh.

fc

fc [-e ename] [-nlr] [first] [last]
fc -s [pat=rep] [command]

Fix Command. In the first form, a range of commands from first to last is selected from the history list. Both first and last may be specified as a string (to locate the most recent command beginning with that string) or as a number (an index into the history list, where a negative number is used as an offset from the current command number). If last is not specified it is set to first. If first is not specified it is set to the previous command for editing and -16 for listing. If the -l flag is given, the commands are listed on standard output. The -n flag suppresses the command numbers when listing. The -r flag reverses the order of the listing. Otherwise, the editor given by ename is invoked on a file containing those commands. If ename is not given, the value of the following variable expansion is used: ${FCEDIT:-${EDITOR:-vi}}. This says to use the value of the FCEDIT variable if set, or the value of the EDITOR variable if that is set, or vi if neither is set. When editing is complete, the edited commands are echoed and executed.

In the second form, command is re-executed after each instance of pat in the selected command is replaced by rep.

A useful alias to use with the fc command is r='fc -s', so that typing r cc runs the last command beginning with cc and typing r re-executes the last command (see section Aliases).

let
The let builtin allows arithmetic to be performed on shell variables. For details, refer to section Arithmetic Builtins.

typeset
The typeset command is supplied for compatibility with the Korn shell; however, it has been made obsolete by the declare command (see section Bash Builtin Commands).

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