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From: weimer@garden.ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer (253-7796))
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Subject: Re: Can a command be stuffed into History?
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Date: 5 Apr 91 18:40:54 GMT
References: <SQUASH.91Apr4184954@heat.math.ufl.edu>
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In article <SQUASH.91Apr4184954@heat.math.ufl.edu> you write:
|> Could some kind soul tell me how to write an alias (or a script)
|> which, after having done something (eg. an lpr command)
|> places on the history list, a particular command.
|>   My intention is to later execute this command with !! .
|>   If this cannot be done, is it possible to have the alias type a
|> command to the Unix prompt, so that I can hit <CR> later to execute it? 

Not exactly what you asked, but in csh you could just do:

alias cmd 'FIRST_THING;echo "SECOND_THING";set x=$<;SECOND_THING'

this will run FIRST_THING, print SECOND_THING (not at a prompt),
wait for <CR> and then run SECOND_THING

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )