Re: .bash_history
On 11/20/2005 05:20 PM, Adam Hardy wrote:
> I rely on .bash_history alot to remind me what command syntax to use - I
> don't scroll back thro the history with the up button, I just grep the
> .bash_history file for the command I want to run.
>
> This used to work until recently when I found that the .bash_history had
> been transformed into a data file, instead of the ASCII text that I was
> used to.
>
> I don't know what caused this. But I deleted the file and carried on.
> For a while the .bash_history file returned as ASCII text, but now it's
> happened again.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> Thanks
> Adam
Why not use control-r ? Does exactly that.
>From man bash:
> reverse-search-history (C-r)
> Search backward starting at the current line and moving `up'
> through the history as necessary. This is an incremental
> search.
Regards.
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