I'm trying to replicate the behavior of the history builtin: specifically when you do !<line # of command> and it's just replaced with the command at line #.

Let's say that I have a file with the following contents:

cd ~/some/path

I would like to be able to take the contents of that file and have that pushed into the current terminal input line as such:

$ ./put_to_input file
$ cd ~/some/path # pulled from the file, not manually typed 

Not sure if this is possible. Help would be appreciated!

I'm trying to replicate the behavior of the history builtin: specifically when you do !<line # of command> and it's just replaced with the command at line #.

Let's say that I have a file with the following contents:

cd ~/some/path

I would like to be able to take the contents of that file and have that pushed into the current terminal input line as such:

$ ./put_to_input file
$ cd ~/some/path # pulled from the file, not manually typed 

Not sure if this is possible. Help would be appreciated!

Clarification:

I want to put the lines of the file into the terminal input, as if the person had typed it themselves. Similar to if you use the !n shell history substitution. https://opensource.com/article/18/6/history-command