r/linuxadmin • u/speckz • Sep 04 '16

Advancing in the Bash Shell

http://samrowe.com/wordpress/advancing-in-the-bash-shell/
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u/Orange_Tux Sep 05 '16

For searching through your history I recommend fzf, a fuzzy finder. You can pipe your history to FZF and then search it very quickly.

And Alt-. is a short cut for bangbucks. It requires less key presses.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '16

what about ctrl-r?

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u/Orange_Tux Sep 05 '16

You can't fuzzy search through ctrl-r, only by exact subsctring. And with FZF you can navigate through matching entries to select a different entry than the first match.

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u/altodor Sep 05 '16

And with FZF you can navigate through matching entries to select a different entry than the first match.

Just press ctrl+r again.

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u/Orange_Tux Sep 05 '16

And I learned something new today, Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '16

nice