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Tyr42 on Sept 16, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Understanding Bash History

I learned a lot from this article. It is very useful for novices such as myself. My uparrow key thanks you for writing this.

billybob on Sept 17, 2010 [–]

If you're hitting the up arrow more than a few times, you could easily see search your history instead with "history | grep somestring", or, as someone else mentioned, Ctrl+R and start typing a command.

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