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fzf.history is a better alternative to fc's core functionality (edit and re-execute command).

Tips & Traps

1. In Linux shells like Bash and Zsh, fc is a built-in command that stands for "Fix Command". Its primary purpose is to let you edit and re-execute commands from your history using $EDITOR.

2. fc -l 1 might throw the error -bash: fc: history specification out of range in bash (some people say that this won't be an issue in zsh as zsh is smart enough to handle specification out of range but I haven't verified it yet) if the (absolute) first bash history command has been pruned (due to large number of history commands). HISTTIMEFORMAT="" history | sed -E 's/^[ ]*[0-9]+[ ]*//' is a more robust command for the same purpose.

Command	Action
fc	Edit the last shell command using $EDITOR and send it for execution.
fc 123	Edit and execute command number 123 from history.
fc git	Edit and execute the last command starting with "git".
fc -l	List all history commands.
fc -ln	List all history commands without numbers.
fc -ln 100 110	List commands from 100 to 110 without numbers.
fc -ln -5	List the last 5 historical commands without numbers.
fc -s	Re-execute the last command without editing.
fc -s old=new	Re-execute the last command, replacing old with new.
fc -s old=new git	Re-execute the last git command, replacing old with new.