I typed it once, I'm not typing it again
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Fish once again undefeated. If I want to find that weird image magick command I used earlier with foo.png in it I just type foo.png, hit up and its usually the first one. It doesnt matter where foo.png occurs in the command, fish will find it.
I've been using ctrl + R more now :3.. though I definitely used to ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑
Woah Ctrl R looks super cool, never knew that I could do that before…
check out fzf (install fzf and add (assuming bash) eval "$(fzf --bash)" to your .bashrc)
Makes ctrl+r a superpower
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Ctrl + r with fzf and you’ll never go back.
or documentation.
To use ctrl-r I have to remember something about the command. To use up arrow I just have to know about how many commands ago I used it.
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...until you press up one too many times and enter the same command but with a typo. Again.
Been there, done that.
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Ctrl R
holy fucking shit 🤌💪🤯❤️💯
The number of people who don’t reverse-I-search is too damn high
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.
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
history is shell dependent.
CTRL+R for those unitiated
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I’ve probably done that for ls
taptaptaptap.... taptaptaptap.... taptaptaptap taptaptaptap taptaptaptap
.... taptaptaptap
... tap ...
... shit I was on a different user when I typed it.
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O(n) access, very efficient.
No, I do not care to share the value of n
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1168/
tar -jcvf archive.tbz ~/stuff/*
Of course I don't know the bomb had bzip2 on it.. I wonder if we can start with ls to see if there's anything to tar or untar
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Or, just type the command “history”, find the index number of the desired command, then type “! ”, then .
That's way more mental effort than pressing up a bunch of times.
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https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin is a great tool to manage and search your shell history. I especially enjoy it being able to search commands based on the working directory I was in when I ran them.
It also has more features (which I don't use) to manage dotfiles and sync shell history across hosts/devices.
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