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by vips7L 455 days ago
The shell should just have better UX. If 5408 is the id of the command ran... just list that out in the printed table. Powershell and nushell do this really well.
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kevin_thibedeau 455 days ago
Because you can use the ID to recall a previous command with "!". This is a feature that predates Bash+readline.
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mprovost 454 days ago
History substitution with "!" goes back to Bill Joy's csh, 1979.
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