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submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You saying I can just skip cat in that command and it works?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

history | grep 'cat'

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago

My output was empty for that command.

Guess why?
Because history only gives the last few lines in my system.

[–] neox_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

grep ~/.bash_history

[–] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How did I not know this. Thank you!

[–] oozynozh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

it's grep STRING FILE to be precise

or awk '/STRING/′ FILE if you prefer that for some reason