Carly™ to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoLook, I'm lazy, okay?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up11.24Karrow-down119
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minus-square@fuckstick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoThis. It took a while for it to sink in but now it’s muscle memory and a huge time saver
minus-square@fuckstick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year 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@gaiussabinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoI’m new to linux and i’ve been using $history | grep <thingy>. This information is very useful, thank you.
minus-square@fuckstick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year 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
This. It took a while for it to sink in but now it’s muscle memory and a huge time saver
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