nixCraft 🐧Ten-character #Linux or #Unix command? Pshaw! Real Linux and Unix wizards summon their magic spells by mashing the up arrow a thousand times. It's the ancient ritual of command-line mastery. Lmao.
6AL@nixCraft !searchstring:p then up arrow + enter 😆 or, if one is really positive, !searchstring alone
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Fabien Dupont@nixCraft he could have typed ctrl-r then ls to find it quickly.
ramona@nixCraft why would you call me out like that
bananas_pizza@nixCraft ofc im not willing to write something twice, am i stupid? I'll search for the command for 20 minutes
Linky~@nixCraft dude why not just use "history" command? XD
I mean I can see why if it's on tty or such
I mean I can see why if it's on tty or such
Julien Palard@nixCraft For me it's more like "C-r ls" to find ls in my history, wayyy less typing that up up up up up up up up up :D
StarkRG@nixCraft Alright, someone needs to learn about history|grep and ctrl-r
draNgNon@nixCraft history | grep
@nixCraft Again a faux CLI hacker. This avoids retyping the command, and it still works if the command is not in the history:
$((history | grep --only-matching ls || echo ls) | head --lines 1) 😅
Cyber Samurai 
@nixCraft love it!!!! that's how it works :)
Mark@nixCraft Who uses arrow? Put set -o vi in your profile then it's simply /mycommand return. Maybe hit a few ns to get the exact one.
Michael Vilain@nixCraft Once I learned about CONTROL-R in bash and zsh, I no longer needed the up arrow key as much.
Purgator@nixCraft This is not really true. People use ctrl R.
illogical@nixCraft I feel seen
Nightlynx☕❄🌨☑@nixCraft Ctrl-r is the foundation of my command line wisdom.
@nixCraft I use !xxx a lot
Bonkers@nixCraft alright kids, let me tell you about Ctrl-R
bazkie don't live here no more@nixCraft also, I know there is some 'history search' function, but I just never took the time to learn how it works lol
Hylke Bons 🥜@nixCraft sunk cost fallacy in action. 😅
Not a Spring OnionPeople who know Ctrl+R when they hear that you can typecd */*/baz
to go tocd foo/bar/baz
Ventor 🐧 @nixCraft Na, I do CTRL+R :)
Lasse Marburg@nixCraft I will have to cancel all projects the day my command line history is cleared for any reason
stippi@nixCraft How about using CTRL + R? 😂
@nixCraft
set -o vi
Your command line is now in Vim or actually in ed mode!
Been doing it for the past 30+ years and will never graduate from it.
Tito Swineflu@nixCraft I write all my old commands in charcoal on the wall of my fireplace. I know them by hearth.
Jeff Hobbs@nixCraft the typo makes it
@nixCraft
I mostly do
cat ./.bash_history | grep "stuff".
I know about the history command but it sometimes doesn't back far enough.
Reading the comments, I might want to try ctrl+r now too
Sam Duede@nixCraft pressing the up arrow 999 times then Ctrl-r
vandys@nixCraft
I remember the first time I said to myself "I can't believe I just did that" when I did "!ls" to get an "ls".
I remember the first time I said to myself "I can't believe I just did that" when I did "!ls" to get an "ls".
Seth Brown@nixCraft Let me help you with this.
Make a file called ~/.inputrc with the following contents
set completion-ignore-case on
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
-- end of file ---
Logout and then log back in.
Then you can type the first letter of any previous command, and then, hit the Up Arrow key.
It will scroll through previous commands beginning with the what you typed.
One less key than Ctrl-R :)
Trev 
@nixCraft doesn't matter how well you know a command if you can't spell it
Old Man in the Shoe@nixCraft laughs in ZSH
Sass, David@nixCraft this is why I default to #PowerShell as my shell on every OS. The predictor system is awesome!
LacyGreenfelder@nixCraft Or just use CTRL+r and use the fzf command search feature in zsh. Best thing I discovered so far using the terminal
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦Guilty as charged.
Nimona RESISTS@nixCraft alias r='fc -s $1'
renegadespork@nixCraft Sounds like a job for Antuin https://atuin.sh/
Microfractal 🫖