no I don't want to write the single word command out again I'd rather go up the history with more keypresses
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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history | grep {some part of command}
Much more useful for going further back, even without grep.
As some one who SSH's from a phone to run Docker containers and will be moving the container volumes to a different location, I thank you for this lovely command.
I try to avoid the terminal as much as I humanly can because of ergonomic issues like this.
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I've just signed up to this site and I'm being personally attacked already. smh
Easier to type history then !xx where xx is the number of record in history.
The command is ls