On 8/23/06, Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 01:17:20PM -0400, Philip Ganchev wrote:
> > I guess the only reason a builtin may be less discoverable than a
> > variable is that there are much fewer variables (and that other shells
> > use a variable).
>
> are you talking about history?
> in bash it's a builtin.

Oh, right.  Then erase the text inside the parentheses :-)

> > > * Fish uses a 'random' builtin instead of a $RANDOM varaible as bash
> > > does, because it really is more a function than a variable
>
> yup, i agree, it's a lot better that way.
>
> > > * $history allows you to do neat things like array slicing because it
> > > is an array  and fish has some pretty nice tools for manipulating
> > > arrays.
>
> is there a way to search for strings, wildcards or regular expressions?

Um... use "grep".

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