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Replies for: "There is no up and down on the command line so j and k don't do anything." well they do cycle throw the history for me [bash version 5.0.17]

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brandon_wallace • • Edited

Thank you. j and k do indeed move through the command history. I have updated the article to include the new information.

I use this a lot in my .bashrc

function hg() {
    history | grep $1;
}
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and this to run the second to last command

$ !-2
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Now I can use the j and k keys.