This is my approach, and for those who don’t know, you can use those line numbers that come back from history to rerun the command. Like if your output is something like this:
$ history | grep tmp
501 ls /tmp
502 history | grep tmp
Wait until you learn about ctrl-R to search the bash history… :) If you press that and start typing, you will get auto complete from previous commands you typed. This is how an experienced linux user can be so fast in the terminal.
There are even better tools for this, so ctrl R is just the built in way. Later you should look into https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
grep is sooo useful. Combined with piping commands it can do some really powerful stuff. I didn’t really understand a lot of these commands until I took a Linux class at my local community college. That helped a lot.
history | grep 'command'I use this all the time. Even better if you add it as a function.
This is my approach, and for those who don’t know, you can use those line numbers that come back from
historyto rerun the command. Like if your output is something like this:$ history | grep tmp 501 ls /tmp 502 history | grep tmpYou can run
!501and it will just re-runls /tmpWoah! I had no clue!
I got that as
hgrepMine is
histsfor ‘history search’. Interesting how we came up with different names for the same thing.Yall are missing out on autocomplete.
I love autocomplete, use it all the time.
didn’t know there was a comment for that, I just always used cat to read the bash history file
Wait until you learn about ctrl-R to search the bash history… :) If you press that and start typing, you will get auto complete from previous commands you typed. This is how an experienced linux user can be so fast in the terminal.
There are even better tools for this, so ctrl R is just the built in way. Later you should look into https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
grepis sooo useful. Combined with piping commands it can do some really powerful stuff. I didn’t really understand a lot of these commands until I took a Linux class at my local community college. That helped a lot.