Programmer Humor

I've been using ctrl + R more now :3.. though I definitely used to ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑

or documentation.

• Bash command line editing covers searching.
• Readline library command line editing covers searching.

I knew there was an

ls

In there somewhere

...until you press up one too many times and enter the same command but with a typo. Again.

Ctrl R

The number of people who don’t reverse-I-search is too damn high

^r

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.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1168/

O(n) access, very efficient.

No, I do not care to share the value of n

Or, just type the command “history”, find the index number of the desired command, then type “! ”, then .

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.

In fish, you can enter part of the command, and then press up to search for it. It's kinda awesome.

Substring completion on ZSH. Type in a small part of the command you want to find and then press up.

I typed it once, I'm not typing it again

fish has "directory-aware" autocomplete with inlay hints and a fantastic history command. I do not suffer from such weakness

also when they see this post

I always go past it because I go way to fast.

$ history | grep 'gre[p]' | less -S

cat ~/.bash_history | grep