Better way to execute commands from history?

[sam reckoner <sam.reckoner@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am in the habit of doing the following:

% fc -l -1000| grep -i cd | grep -i link | tail -1 | cut -d" " -f3

which gives me the number of the command that contains both "cd" and
"link" in it. I then manually type in

% !num

where num is the output of the first command. I know there is a C-R
command, but doing it as above makes it possible to search the entire
string in the history list for multiple items.

I'm sure there's a better way to do this.

Any help appreciated.