Comments on: Repeat last shell command that started with a particular word http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/repeat-last-bash-csh-shell-command.html This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: vivekhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/repeat-last-bash-csh-shell-command.html#comment-140428 vivek Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:07:08 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/repeat-last-bash-csh-shell-command.html#comment-140428 devnet, Ah, I forgot about magical CTRL+R. Appreciate your post! devnet,

Ah, I forgot about magical CTRL+R.

Appreciate your post!

]]> By: devnethttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/repeat-last-bash-csh-shell-command.html#comment-140425 devnet Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:33:07 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/repeat-last-bash-csh-shell-command.html#comment-140425 I also like to use Control-R to do a search of my history file to find commands that may not have been the last one that I ran. Control-R will bring up a search dialogue where I can type in one part of my command...say, a package name or other, and it will find it and select it again. This speeds up remembering that one command you did last week :D I also like to use Control-R to do a search of my history file to find commands that may not have been the last one that I ran.

Control-R will bring up a search dialogue where I can type in one part of my command…say, a package name or other, and it will find it and select it again. This speeds up remembering that one command you did last week :D

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