Ctrl + R is bash history search
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
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That sounds an aweful lot like typing to me
Keep hitting CTRL+R until you find it and you can hit CTRL+S to scroll forward if you went past it 👌
I've used ctrl R for 20 years.
Now I learn of ctrl S. This is a blessed day!
You know you're allowed to read the docs, right?
One day of figuring it out avoids 30mim of reading a doc!
read the docs
NNNNEEEERRRRDDDDD
zsh if you can survive configuring it
Ctrl-r
That said... I didn't discover it so early as I should....
id type out more ~/.bash_history | grep ls and copy, paste before id type out ls tbh
at least you avoided a "useless cat" by using "more" instead. Respect Bro!
Me last Thursday:
user@work5:~$ [CTRL-R] ls
user@work5:~$ ls
me: "That will do..."