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-rw-r--r--bash/bashrc.d/lhn.bash7
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diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
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--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ There are a few other little tricks defined for other shells, mostly in
depending on the capabilities of the system `grep(1)`. It's dependent on
information written by the `grep.sh` script in `~/.profile.d`.
* `keep()` stores ad-hoc shell functions and variables.
+* `lhn()` gets the history number of the last command.
* `ls()` tries to apply color to `ls(1)` for interactive use if available.
It's dependent on information written by the `ls.sh` script in
`~/.profile.d`.
diff --git a/bash/bashrc.d/lhn.bash b/bash/bashrc.d/lhn.bash
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..89c6f5da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bash/bashrc.d/lhn.bash
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Print the history number of the last command
+lhn () {
+ local last
+ last=$(fc -l -1) || return
+ [[ -n $last ]] || return
+ printf '%u\n' "${last%%[^0-9]*}"
+}