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Linux terminal users be like (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes

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[–] not_neno 76 points 2 years ago (5 children)

ctrl + r gang

[–] Doolbs 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Holy Crap. I have gotten into the arrow up mode. Then I went to History.

But, but, but ctrl + r. Holy crap.

Thank you kind sir or madam.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you enjoy that, then let me introduce you you fzf - a fuzzy finder that has support for replacing ctrl + r in shells with fuzzy matching. Among other uses.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#key-bindings-for-command-line

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[–] jrandiny 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can also install https://github.com/dvorka/hstr to supercharge your ctrl+r

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[–] frank 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is there a MacOS versión of this? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

It's the same, ctrl + r. It is a bash/shell thing so works on any os that uses bash or similar shells. Note, it is not the command key, but ctrl, unlike a lot of other shortcuts on macos.

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[–] RomanRoy 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ctrl R > start typing

You're welcome to have your life changed

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[–] jg1i 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Bruh. Ctrl-r

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[–] atx_aquarian 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Y'all know about ctrl-r to search history, right? I went for so many years without even thinking to look for something better than up-arrow, so I have to mention it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Wait until they learn that you can ctrl+u when you mistyped your password in sudo instead of spamming backspace...

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[–] rambaroo 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

history | grep

Does the job well if the key combo doesn't work.

[–] knobbysideup 6 points 2 years ago

Followed by !xxx where xxx is the number of the command to re-run

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Finally the ls command!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Time to up your game with Ctrl + R reverse search! 🤓

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Oh, and Ctrl + Shift + R brings you back in the search, niiiiice.

Thank you kind stranger 👍 ☺️.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

And the command is something like ls -l 👍

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Up up up up up up up up up oh wait down

[–] luka 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

you allllways overshoot

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[–] jcb2016 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ctrl + r then enter phrase

[–] reblochon 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With fzf!

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[–] polite_cat 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ctrl+R together with fzf makes this obsolete

[–] meiti 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

my humble method: history | grep -i searchterm

[–] WiseassWolfOfYoitsu 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then ![historynumber] to execute it

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[–] jogurt 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I usually do ctrl+r but with zsh I can type the beginning of the command and press up and it will search that way too.

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[–] CriticalMiss 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

vim ~/.inputrc
Paste the following:

"\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward

Thank me later

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

~/.bash_history is where my documentation lives

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[–] lhx 10 points 2 years ago

I feel this in my soul. Or when you realize you're hitting up up up up to find something trivial like ls and it would have been more efficient to just type ls. LOL.

[–] rln 9 points 2 years ago

Bro, do you even ^R ?

[–] zekiz 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

$ ls -la

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[–] Zaros 8 points 2 years ago

No, no, no. You don't just land on the right one. You accidentally go past it and then have to press down once or twice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

ctrl+p gang RISE UP

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

cat /var/www/vhosts.d/l[tab]o[tab]l[tab]a[tab]...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Fish finally broke me of this habit, and now it's one of the first things I install on any system

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[–] corvett 7 points 2 years ago

history | grep term

[–] meisme 6 points 2 years ago

The command is ls

[–] someacnt_ 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Woah. Quality of meme in this site amazes me.

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[–] NorthWestWind 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have my zsh set up so that I can type in something and press up to search for commands I ran with the the things I typed

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Control+r.

You're welcome.

[–] veng 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

history | grep {some part of command}

Much more useful for going further back, even without grep.

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[–] CthulhuDreamer 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or history | grep {command}

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[–] annoyed_onion 5 points 2 years ago

I've just signed up to this site and I'm being personally attacked already. smh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Ctrl-R

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