Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:52:00 -0400 From: Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin+bsd@citrin.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: csh history search Message-ID: <99ed60e6-2132-943e-262b-1a237a6f578f@citrin.ru> In-Reply-To: <580E2B4F.4000003@gmail.com> References: <580E2B4F.4000003@gmail.com>
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On 10/24/16 11:39, Ernie Luzar wrote: > Lets say that a while back I issued this command > ping -c 4 hometown.jones.domain.com > > Now I would like to retrieve that domain name from the history list. > > On the command line I enter !?jon > The complete ping command is retrieved and automatically executed. > > I don't want the found command automatically executed, I just want the > found command inserted to the command line being visible so I can > manually modify it before choosing to execute it. If you have bindkey -k up history-search-backward bindkey -k down history-search-forward in ~/.cshrc (there by default in FreeBSD) your can type *jon* and then using up/down arrows list all history entries matched by *jon* and edit lime before executing. See man tcsh /history-search-backward for more info.
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