On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 02:22:27 -0400 "Kurt Kehler"
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>On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:50:41 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>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.)
Type 'history' and it will give you a long list of the previous commands.
Then type !n with n being the command number reported by history, and you
are off. :)
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