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[–] aeharding@vger.social 34 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The number of people who don’t reverse-I-search is too damn high

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 26 points 2 days ago

CTRL+R for those unitiated

[–] Everyday0764@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

reverse-i-search + fzf = <3

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dropcase@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

why 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

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

history is shell dependent.