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ctrl + r Starts a search through your history file.

• bingaman 17y ago
  This works because you're in emacs mode, which gives you a bunch of other tasty shortcuts (http://www.scribd.com/doc/985254/Bash-Emacs-Editing-Mode-readline-Cheat-Sheet http://www.scribd.com/doc/985254/Bash-Emacs-Editing-Mode-rea...) as well. There is an equivalent vi mode as well ("set -o vi").
• lzell 17y ago
  and crl+r again for the next match. The ctrl+o tip didn't work for me though (OS X).
• Isomer 17y ago
  And then ^o to execute that command, and put the next command from your history onto the command line ready for another ^o...
• alexkay 17y ago
  Thank you so much! No more `history | grep cmd` %)
• uggedal 17y ago
  Map <up> and <down> to do the same in .zsh: # search history on <up> key instead of paging previous commands: bindkey "\e[A" history-search-backward bindkey "\e[B" history-search-forward
  • apu 17y ago
    Or in bash, using .inputrc (readline): "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward