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1 yr. ago • 98%

2Lazy2Type

67 comments

Ctrl + R is bash history search

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- Keep hitting CTRL+R until you find it and you can hit CTRL+S to scroll forward if you went past it 👌
  
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  I've used ctrl R for 20 years.
  
  Now I learn of ctrl S. This is a blessed day!
  
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  Or CTRL+SHIFT+r, CTRL+s just pauses my terminal output, you can unpause it with CTRL+q
  
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- I feel dirty for still using history | grep ls lol
  
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  I usually alias that to "bastard", I agree with a very dirty feeling.
  
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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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- Ctrl + R ls
  
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- That sounds an aweful lot like typing to me
  
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- Use fzf for an improved experience!
  
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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 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.
  
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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.

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- I usually bind it to my up arrow. Means I can still keep tapping up ;)
  
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- Thank you for this
  
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If people are going to make comics about me, they could at least let me know.

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- 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.
  
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  What if you are 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.
  
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Jfc, how did they film me?

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- You're in the Matrix
  
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Me last Thursday:

user@work5:~$ [CTRL-R] ls

user@work5:~$ ls

me: "That will do..."

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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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  Pretty sure you just got wooshed...
  
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- Useless use of more
  
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- 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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- at least you avoided a "useless cat" by using "more" instead. Respect Bro!
  
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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.

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- Go with McFly and save the history database, you won't regret.
  
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  Fzf does a great job as a Ctrl-r browser too
  
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alias l=ls so you can finally breathe

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- Permanently Deleted
  
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  That's just showing off, take an upvote
  
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Then you try this on Windows and are disappointed that it doesn't remember anything from your last session.

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- Powershell history!
  
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_history?view=powershell-7.3
  
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  My Powershell history broke yesterday after a very intense git session ;-;
  
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Looks more like trying to get into the bios

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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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  Roll your face across the keyboard repeatedly
  
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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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  DEL has always worked in my experience, even when they don't specify it.
  
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Ctrl-r

That said... I didn't discover it so early as I should....

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L and s are on the other side of the keyboard and I only have one hand free. Too much work.

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- Finally somebody that gets the joke lol all these people in here "well akchually" not getting it
  
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  This guy keeps his porn in /var?
  
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Ouff... way too accurate.

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zsh if you can survive configuring it

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oh god it me.

I’m only now trying to Ctrl-R my way out of this mess.

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Yup

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