Linux Journal tip

[Shawn Badger]

SLES 9 still has that functionality.



On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 08:20 -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> 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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