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FZF is a lovely tool, the main issue I have is that the commands I end up running with it don't end up in my bash history.

Let's say I do this

history | fzf

And I choose a command I ran recently, say echo "hello". When I then go through my bash history, my most recently run command isn't echo "hello", it's history | fzf. This means that I have to re-run the entire history | fzf and find the same echo "hello" command if I want to run it again.

Is there a way to force my selected command that I got by using fzf into my bash history?

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    Does using Ctrl+r not do this already? In mine Ctrl+r launches fzf on my history, and pressing enter on some old item pastes it to the terminal - if I run that command by pressing enter, then it shows up as the last item in the history Commented May 19, 2021 at 8:52
  • That is because you have not executed the hello command. You have merely printed that hello command out in your terminal. Your last executed command is history | fzf which shows in your history. Commented Nov 17, 2023 at 21:32

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