Carly™ to linuxmemesEnglish • 2 years agoLook, I'm lazy, okay?imagemessage-square85arrow-up11.28Karrow-down118
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minus-square@fucksticklinkEnglish6•2 years agoCTRL+R brings up a prompt and allows you to search through commands you’ve run before. If you’ve run different variations of the command hitting CTRL+R or CTRL+SHIFT+R cycles through commands similar to what you’ve typed out.
minus-square@gaiussabinuslinkEnglish8•2 years agoI’m new to linux and i’ve been using $history | grep <thingy>. This information is very useful, thank you.
minus-square@fucksticklinkEnglish4•2 years agoSure thing! There’s lots of ways to do the same things, but either way stops you from hitting the up key a bajillion times
What now? What is r? How does this work?
CTRL+R brings up a prompt and allows you to search through commands you’ve run before. If you’ve run different variations of the command hitting CTRL+R or CTRL+SHIFT+R cycles through commands similar to what you’ve typed out.
I’m new to linux and i’ve been using $history | grep <thingy>. This information is very useful, thank you.
Sure thing! There’s lots of ways to do the same things, but either way stops you from hitting the up key a bajillion times