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minus-squareulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIt was quite a while before I realised that was possible. Then not long after starting to use it, that I got fed up and just started opening up the history file and searching in it.
minus-squaredropcase@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agowhy not history | grep -i and the search term? even if there are several, you can use ! and the command’s line number to run it again
minus-squareulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agohistory is shell dependent.
It was quite a while before I realised that was possible.
Then not long after starting to use it, that I got fed up and just started opening up the history file and searching in it.
why not
history | grep -iand the search term?even if there are several, you can use ! and the command’s line number to run it again
historyis shell dependent.