Hack 53. Execute a specific command from history

by Ramesh

In the following example, If you want to repeat the command #4, execute !4 as shown below.

  1. # history | more
  2.        1  service network restart
  3.        2  exit
  4.        3  id
  5.        4  cat /etc/redhat-release
  6.  
  7. # !4
  8. cat /etc/redhat-release
  9. Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)