Ctrl + R is bash history search
That sounds an aweful lot like typing to me
Use fzf for an improved experience!
So basically this? It’s absolutely amazing. Just be warned that it replaces ctrl+R AND up arrow shortcuts by default. You can easily disable the up arrow though.
I’ve not heard about atuin before but seems to do the same thing. I don’t know the specific differences.
I feel dirty for still using
history | grep ls
lolKeep hitting CTRL+R until you find it and you can hit CTRL+S to scroll forward if you went past it 👌
I’ve used ctrl R for 20 years.
Now I learn of ctrl S. This is a blessed day!
You know you’re allowed to read the docs, right?
One day of figuring it out avoids 30mim of reading a doc!
read the docs
NNNNEEEERRRRDDDDD
zsh if you can survive configuring it
Ctrl-r
That said… I didn’t discover it so early as I should…
id type out
more ~/.bash_history | grep ls
and copy, paste before id type outls
tbhat least you avoided a “useless cat” by using “more” instead. Respect Bro!
Me last Thursday:
user@work5:~$ [CTRL-R] ls
user@work5:~$ ls
me: “That will do…”