[colug-432] Search Command History

[michael at yanovich.net]

On 02/10/2014 04:34 PM, tom wrote:
> Is there a way to search command history for a particular item? For 
> example I would like to see every instance I used apt-get without having 
> to arrow up or down thru the entire history.
> 
> Tom
> 

I've heard people suggest using cltr+r and then typing what you are looking
for, but I believe this is shell dependent.

I sometimes just do: history | grep -i "my_term_here"

though if 'history' isn't a valid command in your terminal, I imagine you
could try catting ~/.history or .bash_history / .zsh_history


-- 
Michael Yanovich



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