SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE 66 points 2 years ago

I'm not a programmer but I do this on the Linux command line all the time to find a command I used days or weeks ago. Or I'll spend 20 minutes grepping history instead. All to avoid spending 5 minutes reading the manpage so I can remember which flags and arguments I used.

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lord_ryvan 46 points 2 years ago

Perhaps pressing [Ctrl]+[R] and typing to search makes it easier, I mean instead of grepping history?
Most terminal emulators support it.

You can also change your query (backspacing and typing again) and press [Ctrl]+[R] multiple times to go to older matches.

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SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE 9 points 2 years ago

I will have to try that, I didn't know that functionality existed, thanks!

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vort3 18 points 2 years ago

Let me tell you that you can also add comments to your terminal commands and use them to search history using fzf. This might sound confusing but basically you do this:

commandwithweirdoptions --option1=value1 --option2=value2 # run the usual thing

Then you press Ctrl+R and type anything like «the thing», it uses fuzzy matching and finds the command in history, with a menu of other similar commands. Press enter, done.

Note that you need to have fzf installed, otherwise there is no fuzzy matching and no menu of matching history results.

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theherk 5 points 2 years ago

Also, atuin.sh.

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LiveLM 3 points 2 years ago

This looks super neat but I don't really like the idea of sending my shell history to a third party, nor can I host my own server right now.
Wish it was peer-to-peer like Syncthing

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