• replay-history.sh

#!/bin/bash

# 1. Define the number of recent commands to replay (defaults to 5 if no argument is passed)
NUM_COMMANDS=${1:-5}

# 2. Point to the primary history file and explicitly enable history tracking 
HISTFILE=~/.bash_history
set -o history

# 3. Read the history file into the current script session
history -r

# 4. Extract the commands, skipping the execution of this script itself
# We use 'tail' to get the last N commands, then loop and run them.
history | tail -n "$((NUM_COMMANDS + 1))" | head -n "$NUM_COMMANDS" | awk '{$1=""; print $0}' | while read -r cmd; do
    echo "========================================"
    echo "Replaying: $cmd"
    echo "========================================"
    eval "$cmd"
done