I have been experimenting with this very cool feature.  It appears that the Ctrl-S part is not working in bash in ubuntu 6.06 for me.  If I display history, use ctrl-r to reverse search to a command and then ctrl-r one or more times, I can do ctrl-s as much as I care to but the found command line does not change.  I can still ctrl-r to go further, ENTER to execute, or ctrl-o to execute and bring up the next line from history ready for execution (that is VERY cool BTW).

Any thoughts?  Might this be specific to some distro or maybe disabled in ububtu for some strange reason?

On 9/18/06, Paul Dickson < paul@permanentmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:40:38 +0000, 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."
>

There's Ctrl-O, which acts like you pressed enter, but after the command
completes, the very next command line pops up for pressing enter (or
ctrl-o again or editing).  This makes recycling a series of command lines
over and over as easy as just pressing Ctrl-O.

        -Paul

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