History Expansion in script

[Agvaniot]

hi. im trying to create a script that just do that :

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^string1^string2

the problem is when im trying to do :

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^$1^$2

the script try to look for a command with that parameters but i want the script to act like i typed it directly to the shell
thanks in advance!

[debiman]

what is the '^' supposed to be? Ctrl key? Tab? i don't really understand which shell behavior you want to reproduce.
isn't there a history command?
what exactly are you trying to achieve?

[Agvaniot]

what is the '^' supposed to be? Ctrl key? Tab? i don't really understand which shell behavior you want to reproduce.
isn't there a history command?
what exactly are you trying to achieve?

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^string1^string

is a history expansion which substitute string1 with string2 of the last command
now im trying to create a script to do just that but instead of typing ^string1^string2
i want

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swi string1 string2 

as its more convinient for me

[debiman]

no answer on stackoverflow either... i'm guessing it isn't possible.
sure, you could try messing around with xdotool or some such, but really it would be bets to
either
- just use the history expansion as is without scripting it
or
- recreate the behavior with other utilities like sed...

you can also try to ask this on #bash on irc.freenode.net