It’s always a bit confusing to reason about which startup files bash(1) is going to run in a given situation. It is documented, but the logic is not trivial.
So I made a chart (using PlantUML!). You’re welcome.
EDIT: There is also one for zsh(1) (PlantUML).
The main takeaway from this exercise is:
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shmode,bashandzshdo slightly different things.
I finally mastered the shell (beit bash or zsh, but really, this is readline)’s history with command replacement. It took me 19 years and my entire family fortune to gather enough wits to read that part of the manual with enough attention and will as to learn to use it.
Essentially, you can recall previous commands from the history with !number. You can then change some content of the previous command programmatically before running it by adding :s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/ or :gs/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/ (the first one will replace the first occurrence, the second one will replace them all).