Linux Journal tip

[Carl Parrish]

Shawn Badger wrote:
> SLES 9 still has that functionality.
>   
Just tested on 10.1 and it still works.
>
>
> 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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