Bash Reverse Search

A cool little tip when using Bash shell is the reverse search in the shell history.

If your looking for a previous command hit the key combo [ctrl + r] and the prompt changes to (reverse-i-search) Type in the command and it will a list of matching commands. Press enter to run the previous command that is listed.

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I.T software professional always studying and applying the knowledge gained and one way of doing this is to blog. Danny also has participates in a part time project called Energy@Home [http://code.google.com/p/energyathome/] for monitoring energy usage on a premise. Dedicated to I.T since studying pure Information Technology since the age of 16, Danny Tsang working in the field that he has aimed for since leaving school. View all posts by Danny → This entry was posted in Linux and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

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