[ale] history command in script

[David S. Jackson]

Hi,

I had a tiny script:


#!/usr/local/bin/bash 


echo "Do you want the full argument or just the base command?"
read answer


if echo $answer | grep -i y ; then
   history 1000 | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f3- | sort | uniq -c |sort -r | less
else
   history 1000 | cut -d' ' -f5 | sort | uniq -c | sort -r | less
fi


But "history" doesn't seem to get executed.  Is that because it's
a builtin?  Why should that make a difference?  Is there another
reason why "history" doesn't get executed?

TIA.

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