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From: roland@AI.MIT.EDU (Roland McGrath)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: history numbers are wrong
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Date: 21 Jun 89 03:59:59 GMT
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The history number displayed by \# in PS1 does not correspond
to the numbers used in ! history references or the `history' builtin.
The numbers given by \# start at 1 with each bash invocation,
while the real history numbers start at the beginning of .bash_history.