Re: $HISTCMD in command substitution?

[Jack Bates]

On 2020-01-27 7:41 a.m., Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 1/26/20 8:18 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
> > Is there a way to access the $HISTCMD variable from a command substitution?
> > e.g.
> >
> > > echo "$(echo "$HISTCMD")"
>
> In bash versions through 5.0, no: $HISTCMD is a dynamic variable that
> depends on the state of the history, and history is disabled in a command
> substitution.
>
> The devel branch has relaxed this restriction slightly, and will expand
> $HISTCMD to the history number that was current when the command
> substitution started.

Thank you for your help! Is there currently any way to access $HISTCMD 
from a bind -x shell-command?