Kurt Kehler wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:50:41 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >It seems reasonable to me that if I can't catch it with shift-page up, I
> >can recall the command with up-arrow, append |less to it, and run it
> >again, so I haven't made a serious attemp to find where that is set.
>
> It now seems very reasonable to me also. :) And leads to a question
> about up-arrow history. How do you recall a command which may be 17
> up-arrows away? MS-DOS 5 had doskey, i.e. F8 + letter(s) would recall
> the most recent command that began with that(those) letter(s). I want
> to do something similar with bash but am unsure of the unix way (other
> than pressing up-arrow 17 times.)
>
> Kurt
CTRL-R
(read man bash, section COMMAND HISTORY)
Marc
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