Re: find a command i have recently used in bash
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:28:11AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:51:07PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> >
> > let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc
> > then i have done a few more commands at the prompt.
> >
> > now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a way inwhich i can
> > reach it quickly? for instance, i type ls and some other key and bash
> > completes from history?
>
> You can also use the "history" command to view your history. Any
> command in your history can be reused by prefixing its history number
> with a bang ('!'). Thus if history says "422 ls -lAF /usr/local" you
> can type "!422" at a prompt to issue that command again. history +
> grep can be fun.
oh sure. this is also very useful.
> Finally, (and perhaps most obvious) you can use ctrl-p and ctrl-n to
> cycle backwards and forwards through your command history. For most
> terminal types these sequences are mapped to the up-arrow and
> down-arrow respectively.
sure i was doing this already. but it is only : sequential browsing.
does not help if the command you are looking for is 200 commands back!
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regards,
sandip p deshmukh
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