Linux Journal tip

[Nathan England]

That is awesome! Thank you for sharing that. I get the article as well, but 
rarely every read it! Great post!

But, while we are on the subject, SUSE used to, may still not sure, have bash 
setup so you could type the first letter of a previous command and then hit 
page up/down and it would cycle through the list of commands starting with 
whatever you typed, I've never figured out how to duplicate that 
functionality, anyone know?

Nathan

On Thursday 14 September 2006 07:40, Shawn Badger wrote:
> I don't know how many of you receive this weekly newsletter from Linux
> Journal. They have a section called The Brain Trust which had a tip that
> I never heard of for searching the history in a Bash shell. Here is the
> excerpt from the newsletter:
>
>  THE BRAIN TRUST: READERS SHARE THEIR EXPERTISE
>
>    This week we have a contribution from Jim C.:
>
>    "In the technical tips section of your newsletter on 9/5/06, you
> referred to
>    Bret's alias for searching bash history.  Why create an alias when
> bash
>    gives the user the 'reverse-i-search' and 'forward-i-search'
> features?
>
>    At the command line, press Ctrl-R and see this appear on the screen:
>
>                 (reverse-i-search)`':
>
>    "Then press the characters of the search pattern desired, and bash
> will display the nearest line from the current history position matching
> the pattern.  Press Ctrl-R again to search the next nearest line; press
> Ctrl-S to search forward.  Press enter to accept and immediately execute
> the line displayed.  Press a left or right cursor key to accept and edit
> the line. Press Ctrl-C to abandon the search.
>
>    "Much simpler than searching through a possibly long list from a grep
>    search."
>
>    Do you have a useful technical tip to share with our community of
> readers? Send your tips to jgray at ssc.com.  We'll send you a free t-shirt
> for your efforts! Thanks!
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