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    [–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (20 children)

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

    [–] fuckstick 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

    [–] fuckstick 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] gaiussabinus 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

    [–] fuckstick 4 points 1 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

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