history | grep ‘part of the command I remember’
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Ha... That as if I would ever remember the part of the tool instead of the fact what it did 🤣
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history | grep [the thing]
Ppsshh. Not lazy enough. Create that in a script and call it "hgrep" and drop it into path.
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Nah just save all your commands in a text file on the desktop then make an alias to open it in nano so you just have to type "com". Works for dumb ol me
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It's too early to call me out like that.
Everyone sharing their Ctrl+R tips, here's my Control+R question:
How does scope work? Some command history only seems to exist in certain tabs.
Also sometimes I Ctrl+R in a tab then the command is there but I forget I need a different one first, so I ctrl+c but the next time I search for that original command somehow it doesn't exist anymore.
I'm using the default terminal on Nobara (fedora based).
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set -o vi
ESC k /command
or just grep history...
Atuin Magic Shell History is pretty good.
^R
I see so many people loving on atuin in the comments but I just tried it and don't get it. It seems so much worse than the built in search. I guess it's not for me.
I've been using it for a few months, and so far it's not as good as just regular old command history. I think any benefit might be for really, really old commands, or commands happening in a specific location. So, I'm going to keep using it to see if it helps then. But, so far it's a massive downgrade.
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