[Novalug] Feedback on Saturday's meeting?
sean@mcgowanet.com
sean@mcgowanet.com
Fri Aug 17 12:00:09 EDT 2012
On 2012-08-17 10:29, W Alan Day wrote:
> Jerry w & I were reminiscing about the install fests that Jay Hart
> ran
> when he lived in Alex. Jerry cited control-R two seconds before I
> did
> as one of the things learned that has carried forward.
>
> (In the bash shell, control-R activates a reverse search of previous
> commands matching the string typed at the prompt. This feature has
> not
> been documented in any of the bash man pages that I have consulted
> but I
> use it all the time. It must be documented somewhere.)
This is covered in the bash man page in the READLINE section under the
subheading "Searching". Look for "incremental search" and you will see
it.
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