On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:27 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am obviously missing something basic here but can someone explain to me what > is wrong with the first statement, which returns nothing? > > $ history | grep ^su > $ history | grep su > 2997 su -l > 3024 su -l > 3050 su -l > 3054 su -l Someone else already pointed out the line numbers, but if you are doing this interactively, you probably really want bash's internal 'search-history' operations (usually control-r for reverse-search-history, but there are a bunch of options). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos