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 - <h3 class="section">33.1 History Expansion</h3>
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 - <p>The History library provides a history expansion feature that is similar
 - to the history expansion provided by <code>csh</code>.  This section
 - describes the syntax used to manipulate the history information.
 - </p>
 - <p>History expansions introduce words from the history list into
 - the input stream, making it easy to repeat commands, insert the
 - arguments to a previous command into the current input line, or
 - fix errors in previous commands quickly.
 - </p>
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 - <p>History expansion takes place in two parts.  The first is to determine
 - which line from the history list should be used during substitution.
 - The second is to select portions of that line for inclusion into the
 - current one.  The line selected from the history is called the
 - <em>event</em>, and the portions of that line that are acted upon are
 - called <em>words</em>.  Various <em>modifiers</em> are available to manipulate
 - the selected words.  The line is broken into words in the same fashion
 - that Bash does, so that several words
 - surrounded by quotes are considered one word.
 - History expansions are introduced by the appearance of the
 - history expansion character, which is ‘<samp>!</samp>’ by default.
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 - <p>History expansion implements shell-like quoting conventions:
 - a backslash can be used to remove the special handling for the next character;
 - single quotes enclose verbatim sequences of characters, and can be used to
 - inhibit history expansion;
 - and characters enclosed within double quotes may be subject to history
 - expansion, since backslash can escape the history expansion character,
 - but single quotes may not, since they are not treated specially within
 - double quotes.
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