i am not positive if this is coreect, but i think you can type 'ctrl-r' and then also start typing the first couple of letters, bash will begin matching recent commands that begin with those letters, when you make a match, press return >From: Michael B Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: shells) >Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:49:39 EDT > >On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 02:22:27 -0400 "Kurt Kehler" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >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.) > >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. :) > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Michael Golden >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Normal, no attachments) >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Only for messages with attachments.) >RedHat 5.2 (2.2.5) Linux user -- Linux Advocate > >___________________________________________________________________ >Get the Internet just the way you want it. >Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! >Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
