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Re:UNIX Tips and Tricks To Save You Time In Terminal by nfg on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @09:31AM (#6521085)
> you can do ctrl + r to achieve the same thing.

C-r will (usually?) invoke reverse-search-history (http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Commands-F...) in bash (and I'm sure some other shells also).

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Re:UNIX Tips and Tricks To Save You Time In Terminal by diggan on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @09:33AM (#6521098)
That is absolutely true. I meant super + r.
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Re:UNIX Tips and Tricks To Save You Time In Terminal by raphdg on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @09:33AM (#6521101)
I think he meant C-l .
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Re:UNIX Tips and Tricks To Save You Time In Terminal by diggan on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @09:41AM (#6521144)
No, I didn't but that's pretty handy since it doesn't hide the new prompt.
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