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		nneonneo on Oct 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Useful Thing in Bash I usually just do `history \| grep ...` instead; it's faster and more flexible than trying to flip through Ctrl+R matches. That said, I did just install the history-search-backward and history-search-forward hooks in inputrc, and I can already tell I'll love these.

Crinus on Oct 10, 2019 [–]

I do the same, except instead of `history` i grep the .bash_history file :-P

(i almost always need it for stuff i typed several sessions ago)

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