Using events non-interactively in bash

Question

In Bash, I want to get the arguments I used last time I used the command foo . Interactively, I can use an event designator by by typing !foo:* . Is there any way to use events non-interactively, eg, within a function? I managed to get a similar effect this way, but it seems extremely hacky:

$(fc -s foo=echo foo 2> /dev/null)

PS Anyone have any suggestions for more appropriate tags for this question? Are there any tags that have to do with the ! event designator in Bash, or anything similar?

Answer 1

You can use the bash history builtin's -p option:

-p perform history expansion on each ARG and display the result without storing it in the history list

eg: fooargs=$(history -p '!foo:*')

The quote above is from help history