EDIT: Oh. Duh. Brain freeze. Well, I’ll leave this here anyway. Won’t this work: $ history | grep SOME_UNIQUE_PART_OF_YOUR_TWO_LINER And then $ !H

EDIT: Oh. Duh. Brain freeze. Well, I’ll leave this here anyway. Won’t this work: $ history | grep SOME_UNIQUE_PART_OF_YOUR_TWO_LINER And then $ !HISTORYID ? I do this almost daily and with my bash history set to 10000 lines I pretty much find everything.