this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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[–] Bipta@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What now? What is r? How does this work?

[–] fuckstick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

CTRL+R brings up a prompt and allows you to search through commands you’ve run before. If you’ve run different variations of the command hitting CTRL+R or CTRL+SHIFT+R cycles through commands similar to what you’ve typed out.

[–] gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm new to linux and i've been using $history | grep . This information is very useful, thank you.

[–] fuckstick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sure thing! There’s lots of ways to do the same things, but either way stops you from hitting the up key a bajillion times