Ctrl + R is bash history search
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?
read the docs
NNNNEEEERRRRDDDDD
One day of figuring it out avoids 30mim of reading a doc!
zsh if you can survive configuring it
Ctrl-r
That said… I didn’t discover it so early as I should…
You can Ctrl+R, type “ls”, then keep hitting Ctrl+R until you find one without arguments if you need them. Efficiency at its finest.
If people are going to make comics about me, they could at least let me know.
id type out
more ~/.bash_history | grep lsand copy, paste before id type outlstbhat 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…”
