Bash History

[Sebastian Gil]

2006/6/9, OOzy Pal <oozypal at gmail.com>:
> in Konsole, I remember long time ago that I can write a letter then
> click on arrow up or down to navigate through the bash history. Only
> history that starts with the letter I entered will appear. i.e. if I
> do:
>
> $ apachectl configtest
> $ rm abc
> $ ls -a
> $ ls -l
> $ rm -fr *
>
> then I type r in the konsole and click up/down arrow I can only see
> the rm abc and rm -fr * commands.
>
> I did this in Mandrake 7.
>
> If I am making sense, how can I do this in Ubuntu?
>

There are several ways to search history in bash, take a look at this
page: http://www.faqs.org/docs/bashman/bashref_95.html

Bye
Sebastian

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