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    Look, I'm lazy, okay? (lemmy.world)
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    [–] HorreC@kbin.social 52 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

    [–] LobsterDog@frig.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

    [–] count_duckula@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 (3 children)

    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 (3 children)

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

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    [–] whofearsthenight@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 (1 children)

    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) (1 children)

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

    [–] fuckstick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 (1 children)

    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 (1 children)

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

    [–] danielton@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

    Reverse search

    [–] m15otw 49 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Ctrl+R

    Then type any part of the command (filename, search string, etc)

    Ctrl+R again to cycle through the matches.

    (Best feature in bash)

    [–] p0q@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Use fzf for a more visual search.

    [–] LeanFemurs@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

    This is the way.

    [–] brakenium@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I've been using this for a long time, never knew I could press Ctrl + R again. Thanks!

    [–] wandering_nomad@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

    Ctrl + S to go the other way if you overshoot!

    [–] spoopyking@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Or history | grep 'command'

    [–] m15otw 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Can't just hit enter to run the one you want then, though.

    [–] rufus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

    Type: !1234 ... to run whatever history number of the command.

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    [–] skomposzczet@vlemmy.net 10 points 1 year ago

    up, up, up, up, up, cd .., ah there it is.

    [–] ttk@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

    fzf masterrace

    [–] vimdiesel@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

    ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬇️ ⬇️

    [–] tobier@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is why I switched to fish; it seems to be much smarter understanding what I want to type.

    [–] amos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah it's great how ctrl-r is kinda the default instead of something you have to go out of your way to use. Just start typing a command and the up arrow will only cycle through history that matches what you've typed so far.

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    [–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

    It's like the bus-stop-paradigm: If I wait just a bit longer and it will come. Meanwhile it would've been faster to walk.

    [–] Sketchpad01@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Using the history command just to find the specific IP I need to ssh to

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    [–] Ignacio@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It's even faster if you look for it inside .bash_history.

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    [–] Badland9085@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

    To anyone who uses vim mode, ? lets you search through your stored command history, from normal mode ofc.

    [–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    We will history | grep docker until morale improves

    [–] JasonDJ@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Gah it's all docker container ps -a. OK, fine, history | grep "docker run".

    Next time I'll put a file in the project directory that tells me how I ran it and .gitignore it. I promise. Next time.

    [–] konakona@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

    "python3 -m http.server"

    [–] Ephur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

    I create so many aliases with the notion of how much time I’ll save… never use ‘em. Works out okay though because a much richer history to fzf through

    [–] corytheboyd@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

    https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

    [–] MavTheHack@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

    I just use the 'fuck' command after lazily typing letters that somewhat match the command I want to run

    [–] titey@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

    This is the way!

    [–] brutalbeard@geddit.social 4 points 1 year ago

    history | grep {search term}

    [–] LandedGentryOnlyClub@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

    Yeah but last time I typed it, it worked. Who knows what ridiculous typos I'd make right now?

    [–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

    https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete Autocomplete for Zsh

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