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    [–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Ctrl + R is bash history search

    [–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago

    That sounds an aweful lot like typing to me

    [–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Keep hitting CTRL+R until you find it and you can hit CTRL+S to scroll forward if you went past it 👌

    [–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I've used ctrl R for 20 years.

    Now I learn of ctrl S. This is a blessed day!

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You know you're allowed to read the docs, right?

    [–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago

    read the docs

    NNNNEEEERRRRDDDDD

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    One day of figuring it out avoids 30mim of reading a doc!

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

    Surprised they hadn’t hit the other hot key by accident myself. That’s usually how I find out about other/new features.

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

    Yeah. Read the docs. That's how it starts. Then before you know it your captain is slapping you in the face because you had the nerve to ask to be allowed to sleep instead of driving the giant robot all day.

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

    Reading sounds a lot like typing, only in reverse.

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

    Or CTRL+SHIFT+r, CTRL+s just pauses my terminal output, you can unpause it with CTRL+q

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

    I was gonna say I always used Ctrl+shift+r.... didn't even know about control+s being s thing...

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I feel dirty for still using history | grep ls lol

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

    I usually alias that to "bastard", I agree with a very dirty feeling.

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

    What if history only shows the last 10-15 entries? You might have to actually type the location of the history file or find out if history has any command line switches. (Does it have any switches? Dunno.)

    Edit: I think CIS Benchmarks recommended limiting bash history. Regardless, I have seen some installations that only show an abbreviated bash history by default.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Use fzf for an improved experience!

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

    So basically this? It's absolutely amazing. Just be warned that it replaces ctrl+R AND up arrow shortcuts by default. You can easily disable the up arrow though.

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

    I've not heard about atuin before but seems to do the same thing. I don't know the specific differences.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I prefer to just speak to my computer instead of using a keyboard. The computer doesn't respond but maybe one day

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    A speech operated terminal would be possible, speech to text is pretty well developed by now, shouldn't be too hard to hook that up to a terminal.

    But, y'know, effort.

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

    Precisely, I gotta type in order to go find a program that does that or write one myself. I will simply continuing speaking to an unyielding electric box until it gains sentience and responds.

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

    Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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