[TriLUG] history

[Jason Tower]

hit ctrl-r at your prompt and enter a few characters, that will "search" 
through your history and bring up the last entry that matches.  hit 
enter to execute the command in it's entirety.

jason

On Monday 23 February 2004 12:16, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> Got a question about functionality that may or may not exist, but I
> certainly don't want to start writing programs that already exist...
>
> I want to be able to use the commands out of "history".  When I type
> a long drawn out command one time I want to be able to call that same
> command much like bash does with tab completion or to be able to
> re-execute entry #100 but don't really want to alias it.  This may
> seem lazy, but I am not one for jumping from keyboard to mouse back
> to keyboard...I want to use one or the other...and some systems don't
> even have a mouse.
>
> Does this functionality exist under another name or exist at all? 
> RTFM produced little on "history", Where else can I look?
>
> TIA,
> Steve