[TriLUG] history

[Phillip Rhodes]

Joseph Tate wrote:

> 
> !100 will execute item 100 in your command history.  I generally do a 
> history | grep something, and then !thenumber

You can also do !string
where string is the beginning of a previously
entered command.  This will execute the last command
starting with that string.

Example:

# ssh someuser at somehost.com

later

# !ssh

will execute the most recent ssh command in history.

TTYL,

Phillip Rhodes

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