Re:Understanding Bash History
by Tyr42 on Thursday September 16, 2010 @05:36PM
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I learned a lot from this article. It is very useful for novices such as myself.
My uparrow key thanks you for writing this.
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If you're hitting the up arrow more than a few times, you could easily see search your history instead with "history | grep somestring", or, as someone else mentioned, Ctrl+R and start typing a command.