I'm a bash user, starting a new job at a place where people use fish shell.
I'm looking at the history command which I often use in bash. When I use it in fish I get a long list of my history which I can scroll up and down on with the arrow keys.
There are no numbers like in bash and pressing enter is the same as the down key.
How can I run a past command with fish shell's history?
The history command in the fish shell isn't bash-compatible, it's just displaying it in a pager (e.g. less).
To select an old command, you'll probably want to enter the part you remember right into the commandline, press up-arrow until you have found what you want and then press enter to execute.
E.g. on my system I enter mes, press up and rm -I meson.build appears (with the "mes" part highlighted). I then press enter and it executes.
grep or other commands. Like git, or systemctl, the pager is only used if the output is directly to a TTY.
Ctrl+r which opens the search.
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Apr 12 at 14:16
It seems like this is by design, but you can mimic other shell's behavior with a pipe into the nl command (or setup an alias like alias history="history | nl"
However, if you were looking for numbers in order to do history expansion (ex. !123 to re-run command 123 in list), it seems that fish does not support this, but you may find some workarounds here: https://superuser.com/questions/719531/what-is-the-equivalent-of-bashs-and-in-the-fish-shell
