Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:27:08 +0000 (UTC) From: Rakesh Prajapati <rprajapa@sdf.lonestar.org> To: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com> Cc: Darren <backdoc@crotchett.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: awesome find Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0112291916130.29046-100000@sdf.lonestar.org> In-Reply-To: <E16KOag-0006zN-00@gadolinium.btinternet.com>
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Dominic Marks wrote: > Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:52:38 +0000 > From: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com> > To: Darren <backdoc@crotchett.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: awesome find > > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Dominic > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Also in bash , just type in a few chars (one or more) and press TAB once and it will expand to files in that directory and pressing TAB once more and it will list all the commands/programs that start with those letters which are in $PATH. eg. ta<TAB><TAB> gives me tail talk tangle tar tasklist_applet rprajapa@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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