[ale] Bash history

[Paul Cartwright]

On Wed November 30 2005 11:08 am, Tejus Parikh wrote:
> pressing "ctrl+r" will let you search through your current history.
> ? For example, typing "mo" will show the last command you entered
> containing "mo" (eg, "mount", "something | more", etc.). ?Pressing
> enter will run the command, esc will put the command on the command
> line so you can edit it. ?Backspace also does something, but I'm not
> sure exactly what.

now THAT is the command I was looking for! what I was used to was 
having VI as the default editor, using ESC-K and "/" to go back and 
search.. I really need to look up some bash and search docs...

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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800