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Date:      Sat, 29 Dec 2001 09:01:02 -0600
From:      "Darren" <backdoc@crotchett.com>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   awesome find
Message-ID:  <0f9301c19079$a2241200$6401a8c0@crotchett.com>

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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.

Darren


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