On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 07:41:08PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > the only thing i have to compare it with is bash:
By no means comprehensive but: these appear to not include the current command: zsh FreeBSD ash these appear to include the current command: AT&T ksh bash csh tcsh >From pdksh ChangeLog: Tue May 7 10:11:41 NDT 1996 Michael Rendell (mich...@panda.cs.mun.ca) * history.c(hist_get_newest,hist_get_oldest): don't find the current (fc) command; removed print_err argument (was always true). I am unable to find old pdksh sources to see if this patch is any better... Index: history.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ksh/history.c,v retrieving revision 1.39 diff -u -p -r1.39 history.c --- history.c 19 May 2010 17:36:08 -0000 1.39 +++ history.c 14 Aug 2014 15:43:38 -0000 @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ c_fc(char **wp) if (!hfirst) return 1; /* can't fail if hfirst didn't fail */ - hlast = hist_get_newest(false); + hlast = hist_get_newest(true); } else { /* POSIX says not an error if first/last out of bounds * when range is specified; at&t ksh and pdksh allow out of @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ c_fc(char **wp) if (!hfirst) return 1; hlast = last ? hist_get(last, true, lflag ? true : false) : - (lflag ? hist_get_newest(false) : hfirst); + (lflag ? hist_get_newest(true) : hfirst); if (!hlast) return 1; }