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[-] HorreC@kbin.social 52 points 1 year ago

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

[-] LobsterDog@frig.social 15 points 1 year ago

Is it not just Ctrl-R or is that platform dependent

[-] count_duckula@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

I have always used ctrl-r but I just checked and both work. TIL.

[-] tsukassa@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for clearing up this mystery.

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 12 points 1 year ago

Hmm, normally it's just ctrl - r... Are you sure the shift is needed on your system?

[-] lungdart@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Don't forget fzf. That will really jazz up your history search!

[-] mausy5043@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] lungdart@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

I recommend installing it as an oh-my-zsh plugin, but it's not hard to get running in vanilla zsh/bash

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

Ok if you want to learn Linux, you need to start web searching for stuff you hear about. :)

[-] HorreC@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

you are right, I must have just learned it with a shift for some dumb reason and it stuck, thank you internet person.

[-] med@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Some variants have ctrl+r bound to something else

[-] whofearsthenight@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Now if you had to guess how often I remember that there is a keyboard shortcut that does this, but don't remember what it is, and do remember that I can just press up 30-70 times...

[-] HorreC@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

you can hit it again after you are dialed in as much as you want and it will keep going back in time with the words you have in there and stuff that matches!

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

I recommend using mcfly for that, it makes it even better.

[-] fuckstick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Bipta@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] fuckstick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] fuckstick@lemmy.world 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

[-] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Why r? Maybe if I knew why r, then I wouldn't forget this every 13 seconds...

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Reverse search

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