Reverse search (ctrl r)
When someone showed me this it was a game changer and sped up things no end - no more endlessly going through this history line by line to find an old command you want to use again and hadn't copied to a scratch notepad!
Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
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Alexandria, VA, USA
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B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Technically, that's more a function of the shell you've chosen to use than a true Linuxism. Which is to say, you'll find that functionality on any OS that has a recent-enough version of BASH (possibly other interactive shells, too). ;)
Reverse search (ctrl r)
When someone showed me this it was a game changer and sped up things no end - no more endlessly going through this history line by line to find an old command you want to use again and hadn't copied to a scratch notepad!
I use fzf (a command line fuzzy finder) in addition to ctrl+r. Now I can easily search through my history.
See: github.com/junegunn/fzf
I love this
Technically, that's more a function of the shell you've chosen to use than a true Linuxism. Which is to say, you'll find that functionality on any OS that has a recent-enough version of BASH (possibly other interactive shells, too). ;)
Well as a linux beginner at the time, I was glad I gave it a BASH :D