Keep hitting CTRL+R until you find it and you can hit CTRL+S to scroll forward if you went past it š
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Surprised they hadnāt hit the other hot key by accident myself. Thatās usually how I find out about other/new features.
Yeah. Read the docs. That's how it starts. Then before you know it your captain is slapping you in the face because you had the nerve to ask to be allowed to sleep instead of driving the giant robot all day.
Or CTRL+SHIFT+r, CTRL+s just pauses my terminal output, you can unpause it with CTRL+q
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I was gonna say I always used Ctrl+shift+r.... didn't even know about control+s being s thing...
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What if history only shows the last 10-15 entries? You might have to actually type the location of the history file or find out if history has any command line switches. (Does it have any switches? Dunno.)
Edit: I think CIS Benchmarks recommended limiting bash history. Regardless, I have seen some installations that only show an abbreviated bash history by default.
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So basically this? It's absolutely amazing. Just be warned that it replaces ctrl+R AND up arrow shortcuts by default. You can easily disable the up arrow though.
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I've not heard about atuin before but seems to do the same thing. I don't know the specific differences.
I prefer to just speak to my computer instead of using a keyboard. The computer doesn't respond but maybe one day
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A speech operated terminal would be possible, speech to text is pretty well developed by now, shouldn't be too hard to hook that up to a terminal.
But, y'know, effort.
Precisely, I gotta type in order to go find a program that does that or write one myself. I will simply continuing speaking to an unyielding electric box until it gains sentience and responds.
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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You can Ctrl+R, type "ls", then keep hitting Ctrl+R until you find one without arguments if you need them. Efficiency at its finest.
We tried telling you.
Maybe if you stopped screaming every time we tried, but nooo, SOMEONE has to have issues with the voices in their walls.
They're never going to find the body anyway. Stop worrying.
It's time to ask yourself what you really are, because for all your big talk, all in all, you're just another brick in the wall.
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Oh, that's a relief, thank you. You can go back making barely audible whispers and occasionally humming Baby Shark now.
Me last Thursday:
user@work5:~$ [CTRL-R] ls
user@work5:~$ ls
me: "That will do..."
id type out more ~/.bash_history | grep ls and copy, paste before id type out ls tbh
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Why do all that typing? Hit ctrl-r first then type ls. Bonus points if you hook fzf into it.
fzf hooked into ctrl-r, a bash history of about 100k and HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth is magic.
Note: backup your history file periodically, system crashes at the wrong time can zero it leaving you incompetent until it's restored.
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Yeah it's ridiculous. That's the woosh. The statement was "I'd type more blah piped to ls then copy and paste before typing ls"
It's absurd. It's obviously absurd. If you didn't pick up on that, you got wooshed
You can pipe it to wl-copy, and then when you need it all you need to type is wl-paste
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Last week I switched to a new distro and decided to nuke everything except my personal data in my backup. I immediately regretted not saving my shell history file.
Then you try this on Windows and are disappointed that it doesn't remember anything from your last session.
Powershell history!
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One finger is not enough for that, could be ESC, F2, F12, DEL or whatever else the bios manufacturer landed on when they threw a dart at the keyboard.
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If you're on an EFI based system and have systemd, you can use systemctl reboot --firmware-setup to get into BIOS!
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Finally somebody that gets the joke lol all these people in here "well akchually" not getting it