bash command history

1997-08-09 Thread Paul Miller 
Is there any way to get bash to work like 4dos? -- If you type the first
couple of characters of a command in history, it will only scroll through
those commands begining with those characters...

-Paul


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Re: bash command history

1997-08-09 Thread Philippe Troin 

On Sat, 09 Aug 1997 02:22:32 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
 wrote:

 Is there any way to get bash to work like 4dos? -- If you type the first
 couple of characters of a command in history, it will only scroll through
 those commands begining with those characters...

^R aka CTRL-R
man readline

Phil.



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