+ func: lhistory: sort all by timestamp and display last N entries

also implements a '-a' that looks at all cmdhist files (much larger but includes past history bases that we might not always want to search)
smemsh · Jul 14, 2024 · cb98c51 · cb98c51
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commit cb98c51
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diff --git a/func.d/history b/func.d/history
@@ -81,9 +81,18 @@ hist ()
 
 lhistory ()
 {
-	HISTTIMEFORMAT="${HISTTIMEFORMAT} " \
-	history \
-	| sort -sk 2,2 \
+	local logdir
+	local -a logfiles
+
+	if [[ $1 == -a ]]
+	then
+		logdir=${LOGFILE_CMDS%/*}
+		logfiles=($logdir/cmdhist.*)
+		shift
+	else
+		logfiles=($LOGFILE_CMDS)
+	fi
+	sort -sk 2,2 <(cat "${logfiles[@]}") \
 	| tail -n ${1:-+1} \
 	| less -FX
 }