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ctrl+r is your friend :)
Not me using Linux for 15 years and just learning you can search through previous commands...
I hope I'm not blowing your mind when I tell you that you can grep .bash_history?
Easy there wizard. In my defense I don't hang out in a terminal all that much anymore.
With only three up presses, it would probably be faster than ctrl+r