this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Holy Crap. I have gotten into the arrow up mode. Then I went to History.

But, but, but ctrl + r. Holy crap.

Thank you kind sir or madam.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you enjoy that, then let me introduce you you fzf - a fuzzy finder that has support for replacing ctrl + r in shells with fuzzy matching. Among other uses.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#key-bindings-for-command-line

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man I over use it at work - even when sitting in front of a pwsh prompt

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can also install https://github.com/dvorka/hstr to supercharge your ctrl+r

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I can recommend fzf since it also supports searching the current directory

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a MacOS versión of this? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's the same, ctrl + r. It is a bash/shell thing so works on any os that uses bash or similar shells. Note, it is not the command key, but ctrl, unlike a lot of other shortcuts on macos.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ctrl R > start typing

You're welcome to have your life changed

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Finally the ls command!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Up up up up up up up up up oh wait down

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ctrl + r then enter phrase

[–] drcouzelis 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Time to up your game with Ctrl + R reverse search! 🤓

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, and Ctrl + Shift + R brings you back in the search, niiiiice.

Thank you kind stranger 👍 ☺️.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Bro, do you even ^R ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

ctrl+p gang RISE UP

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

~/.bash_history is where my documentation lives

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

cat /var/www/vhosts.d/l[tab]o[tab]l[tab]a[tab]...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

cat /var/www/vhosts.d/lolanotherfilehasthesamenamebutwith1.conf

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woah. Quality of meme in this site amazes me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more or less like on reddit, but less users.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's more or fewer like on Reddit, but with less users.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or history | grep {command}

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the command is something like ls -l 👍

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Y'all know about ctrl-r to search history, right? I went for so many years without even thinking to look for something better than up-arrow, so I have to mention it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wait until they learn that you can ctrl+u when you mistyped your password in sudo instead of spamming backspace...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  1. vim ~/.inputrc
  2. Paste the following:

"\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward

Thank me later

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

ah there's my password...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Guilty. Even knowing better ways laziness wins. Skyrim console too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

history | grep term

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

cat .bash_history | grep keyword

But yeah pretty much.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Why not just history | grep keyword then? Works in any directory.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I usually do ctrl+r but with zsh I can type the beginning of the command and press up and it will search that way too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fish automatically searches as you type, just start typing and press -> when you find the command you need.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ctrl+R together with fzf makes this obsolete

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

esc + k for me! (vi for life)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Since this post triggered hidden gems: ^old^new will substitute old with new from the last command and execute.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Me when configuring a switch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

history | grep {some part of command}

Much more useful for going further back, even without grep.

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