• HorreC
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    531 year ago

    control shift R, then start typing, it will search your bash history

    • whofearsthenight
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      71 year ago

      Now if you had to guess how often I remember that there is a keyboard shortcut that does this, but don’t remember what it is, and do remember that I can just press up 30-70 times…

      • HorreC
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        31 year ago

        you can hit it again after you are dialed in as much as you want and it will keep going back in time with the words you have in there and stuff that matches!

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      This. It took a while for it to sink in but now it’s muscle memory and a huge time saver

      • Bipta
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        1 year ago

        What now? What is r? How does this work?

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          CTRL+R brings up a prompt and allows you to search through commands you’ve run before. If you’ve run different variations of the command hitting CTRL+R or CTRL+SHIFT+R cycles through commands similar to what you’ve typed out.

          • @[email protected]
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            81 year ago

            I’m new to linux and i’ve been using $history | grep <thingy>. This information is very useful, thank you.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              Sure thing! There’s lots of ways to do the same things, but either way stops you from hitting the up key a bajillion times