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bash, pass an argument to the 'history' command

I do the following to make history more sensible (i.e. seeing when a command is run can be fairly critical when troubleshooting) shopt -s histappend; # Append commands to the bash history (~/....
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cycle through reverse search in a custom command history file in bash

I added a line to ~/.bashrc file which appends all issued commands to ~/.bash_eternal_history file in a date directory history-number command format, such as: 2019-01-08.23:59:32 /home/sport/...
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How can I filter certain commands from multi-line Bash history on logout?

I've configured Bash to save multiline history entries with embedded newlines. shopt -s cmdhist lithist export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T ' When I exit the shell, my history is appended to ~/.bash_history ...
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Bash - Split the previous commands parameters

How would one parse the previous command in bash? Example: root$ ssh [email protected] root$ echo !$ &>/tmp/foo.txt root$ cat /tmp/foo.txt [email protected] Goal: Send just the ipaddress 1.2.3.4 to foo....
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