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4:23 PM

@somethingSomething hi

As said before, here is my case: I ran/and run this command in my terminal(Konsole) cat .bash_history | grep ./configure and I'm 100% sure I'm in my ~/ directory, I've also tried ls -ahl to see if .bash_history is located there and it is......

Hi

If you have any input on the issue it is much apprieated.

terdon

@somethingSomething OK, your comment said you ran in on .bashrc, I assumed thta was a typo, I just wanted to make sure.

somethingSomething

this is the method of grep'ing I've used and I didn't notice before that it didn't work.

terdon

cat file | grep foo will give the same results as grep foo file. The latter is just more elegant since it avoids the Useless Use of Cat.

somethingSomething

Is it not a valid command...... for the expected result

Ok

terdon

4:27 PM

I asked only because you said .bashrc:

@terdon I closed one terminal( the one I ./configured in last is scanning an hdd for viruses) but since I've used this os for more than a year it is unlikely that I've not used ./configure in that time and closed the terminal afterwards. Still I opened an new one and ran the command again: cat .bashrc | grep ./configure, .... no output. I'm pretty sure I've compiled more than then the one program I compiled in the last five day's. — somethingSomething 33 mins ago

somethingSomething

Yes I ran it for .bash_history

typo

terdon

So, what's the situation at the moment? Does cat .bash_history | grep configure return anything?

somethingSomething

No, when I run your command it gives 8 results, when I run my version it gives zeor/"no output"

zeor

zero

terdon

What? Could you paste both commands here please?

also try history | grep configure

somethingSomething

I on an other system here but the other is just besides me,.... I type exactly as it is in the open terminal.....

Your command:

grep ./configure ~/.bash_history 8 results................. : ./configure --enable-experimental --with-dbdir=/usr/local/share/clamav and ./configure --enable-experimental --with-dbdir=/usr/local/share/clamav --enable-bzip2 and 6 more

My command:

cat .bash_history | grep ./configure

no results

I'm sure I'm in right directory, because I see the directory name in the prompt and I tried to ls -ahl to see if .bash_history is there

terdon

4:35 PM

How about cat ~/.bash_history | grep ./configure ?

There is no reason why cat file | grep ... would be different from grep foo file.

somethingSomething

Your last version works, it is similar to my command except it uses ~/.bash_history

terdon

Unless they're not the same file.