diff --git a/share/functions/history.fish b/share/functions/history.fish
index b6d8ee963..758b5ea56 100644
--- a/share/functions/history.fish
+++ b/share/functions/history.fish
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ function history --description "Deletes an item from history"
 				end
 
 				#Following two validations could be embedded with "and" but I find the syntax kind of weird.
-				if not string match -qr '^[0-9]+$'
+				if not string match -qr '^[0-9]+$' $i
 					printf "Invalid input: %s\n" $i
 					continue
 				end