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From: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>
To: "Darren" <backdoc@crotchett.com>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: awesome find
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:52:38 +0000
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On Saturday 29 December 2001 3:01 pm, Darren wrote:
> I'm using bash 2.05 on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE.  I have discovered a
> feature of bash that I didn't know existed.  Since there may be
> others like me who did not know that this feature existed, I
> thought that I'd point it out.
>
> Anyway, forever now, I've taken advantage of using the up arrow to
> access the most recently used commands.  By accident, I discovered
> that if you type a character or two of what you intend to type
> _AND_THEN_ press the up arrow key, bash will narrow down your
> options to only the commands in your history that begin with the
> same characters.  Kinda like a grep/regex thing.
>
> In other words, if you use vi, try typing vi at the command line
> and then use the up arrow.  You'll see only the commands in history
> that start with vi.
>
> Awesome.

FYI: This is also the case with most good interactive shells, 
including the stock tcsh included with FreeBSD.

> Darren
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Dominic

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