Linux terminal users be like

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.

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

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

Fish gang arise (no need for ctrl+r, just press up)

What the actual.... Thanks

you allllways overshoot

With fzf!

you're amazing, this is going to change how I use fish

Or the history substring search plugin for zsh showing inline history as you type, like fish.

lola 🤨?

yeah, the other day i was supposed to remove a restriction from a router that was some custom thing built on a raspberry pi. i logged in, started messing around, trying to figure out the system, and of course i looked at bash_history because why not, i'm unfamiliar with the setup so it seemed like a good place to start. up until i found some commands editing it. so i'm like

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$ export HISTFILE=/dev/null # alright, two can play this game

  

it ended up being a simply cron job that runs a script that starts and stops hostapd every once in a while. i didn't disable the cron job, i just commented out a critical line from the stop script. happy debugging to the sysadmin, lol

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

Thank you kind stranger 👍 ☺️.

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

i have a alias for h which is history, then hg which does this and i can search my whole 52 thousand line history file and find anything i've ran

Ok this is actually great. Is there a way to make it so when you down arrow again it will clear the cmd line (or take it back to the prefix)?

Like "py" -> up -> down -> result is "py"

Currently it would show my last python command (or whatever matches).

Man, I've been on unix systems since, oh, 1994, but I've never messed with my .inputrc ... may need to take the dive....

I'll be a madlad and thank you right here, right now!

Hey! Sorry just getting into Linux, I love learning about cool ways of doing things more efficiently. What does this do exactly? I've noticed others mentioning CTRL+R and I am not sure what that means either. Thank you!

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

You know you don't actually have to do cat 😂. But yeah, I know, I do it as well 🤣.

Yeah, I grep on history and then !

<number>

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

history | grep

<search term>

Does the job well if the key combo doesn't work.

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

fzf is pretty cool, but I found its ctrl-r "menu" to be more confusing than the old "one entry at a time" style.

(Ofc could be a configuration thing but I'm somewhat an oldhat when it comes to my terminal habits.)

my humble method: history | grep -i searchterm

ls -hal

One of the top reasons I use fish is that I never learned how to cycle through the results of ctrl+r in bash

another happy fish convert here too!

Fish? Please enlighten a casual user

As some one who SSH's from a phone to run Docker containers and will be moving the container volumes to a different location, I thank you for this lovely command.

I usually use ls -hal.

y... you do realise this is a meme, right? If you want to find a specific command that you ran in the past, you can just hit ctrl-r and search for it? No-one is actually spamming the up key, it's a joke.