This is my approach, and for those who don’t know, you can use those line numbers that come back from history to rerun the command. Like if your output is something like this:

$ history | grep tmp
  501  ls /tmp
  502  history | grep tmp

You can run !501 and it will just re-run ls /tmp

I got that as hgrep

didn’t know there was a comment for that, I just always used cat to read the bash history file