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minus-squareezekielmudd@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 months agoOr, just type the command “history”, find the index number of the desired command, then type “! <index number>”, then <enter>.
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoor Ctrl+R then search? I don’t know why people bother with history tbh.
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoBecause you can pipe history to grep.
minus-squaresnowe@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agowith fzf you get better grep with fuzzy search
minus-squareirish_link@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoHoly cow!! I didn’t know that. I have been using history > history.txt to find “that one command for that one thing” I only need once every other month or so. Thanks, now I can just do that.
Or, just type the command “history”, find the index number of the desired command, then type “! <index number>”, then <enter>.
or Ctrl+R then search? I don’t know why people bother with
historytbh.Because you can pipe history to grep.
with fzf you get better grep with fuzzy search
Holy cow!! I didn’t know that. I have been using history > history.txt to find “that one command for that one thing” I only need once every other month or so. Thanks, now I can just do that.