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According to the docs I can tell the zsh history to print lines in a range. The docs say "history [first [last]]" I've tried "history a b" but that gives a too many arguments error.

I've also tried hundreds of other things same results. Can someone post an example of a working history with range?

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    That sounds like a bash error. Are you sure you're using zsh? What do echo "$ZSH_VERSION" and echo "$BASH_VERSION" tell you?
    – Stéphane Chazelas
    Aug 19 '13 at 5:48
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    Works fine here: echo "$ZSH_VERSION"; history 1008 1009 yields 4.3.10 1008 history 1000 1008 1009 history 1008 1009
    – Ulrich Schwarz
    Aug 19 '13 at 5:54
  • ZSH_VERSION is 5.0.2 BASH_VERSION is null. Also I am using Oh-my-zsh.
    – Mouse.The.Lucky.Dog
    Aug 19 '13 at 7:00
  • What happens when you remove Oh-my-zsh? (You should remove it permanently, FWIW).
    – jasonwryan
    Aug 20 '13 at 0:47
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Examples as requested.

Fails when attempting using bash:

mintvm ~ # echo $BASH_VERSION
4.3.11(1)-release
mintvm ~ # echo $ZSH_VERSION

mintvm ~ # history 1 5
-su: history: too many arguments
mintvm ~ #

Works when using zsh:

mintvm ~ # zsh
mintvm# echo $BASH_VERSION

mintvm# echo $ZSH_VERSION
5.0.2
mintvm# history 1 5
    1  echo $BASH_VERSION
    2  echo $ZSH_VERSION
    3  history 1 5
mintvm#
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zsh

fc -l -5      # 5 most recent 
fc -l 1 5     # 5 oldest 
fc -l -10 -5  # 10th newest to 5 newest
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