Bash history search

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Bash history search

Postby lik » Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:44 am

The most efficent way to search your history is to hit Ctrl+R and type the start of the command. It will autocomplete as soon as there’s a match to a history entry, then you just hit enter. Pressing ctrl+r many times will search for previous commands.
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