Hmmm... I think this is a bug...?

[Chet Ramey]

> I'm not sure whether I'm using bash correctly, but I think my version has a
> bug in global substitution.

It's actually a misunderstanding. The `global' substitution enabled
with the `g' modifier means to change the first occurrence of (in
your example) `s' into `z' in all words in the previous command
instead of the first. There's no way to do what you want with the
csh-style history substitution.

Chet

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[Chris Parkin Lilley]

Hi there!

I'm not sure whether I'm using bash correctly, but I think my version has a
bug in global substitution.

GNU bash, version 1.13.4-CWRU
Sun SparcStation IPX, SunOS 4.1.1
Compiled using Sun's cc

Take a simple example like 'ls /etc/passwd'

Let's say that I then decide (for no readily apparent reason) that I want to
change all the `s' characters to `z'. I imagined I would type something like

!!:gs/s/z/

but this yields

lz /etc/pazswd

When I tried
ls /etc/passwd /etc/fstab
!!:gs/s/z/
I got
lz /etc/pazswd /etc/fztab

and when I tried
ls /etc/passwd /etc/passwd
!!:gs/s/z/
I got
lz /etc/pazswd /etc/pazswd

Should it change every occurrence of `s' to `z', or only the first occurrence in
every word? Am I just using it incorrectly?

Thanks for your help in understanding this one...

-Chrisl
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