• fuckstick@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    CTRL+R brings up a prompt and allows you to search through commands you’ve run before. If you’ve run different variations of the command hitting CTRL+R or CTRL+SHIFT+R cycles through commands similar to what you’ve typed out.

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      1 year ago

      I’m new to linux and i’ve been using $history | grep <thingy>. This information is very useful, thank you.

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        Sure thing! There’s lots of ways to do the same things, but either way stops you from hitting the up key a bajillion times