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    [–] Bread 16 points 1 year ago

    Up arrow just feels right. If I can satisfy my goal just by tapping one button repeatedly vs not doing that. I think we all know what satisfies that part of the monkey brain.

    [–] alexthelion335 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The ! is really useful when you forget you need to run the command with sudo. sudo !!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That’s life changing shit right there.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    No thanks. I'll just press the up arrow -> ctrl-a -> sudo

    [–] norawibb 1 points 1 year ago

    this is way more intuitive anyway

    [–] Aurenkin 2 points 1 year ago

    I like the argument reuse as well via !:1 and such. A bit more situational but can definitely come in handy

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I always just use zsh with oh my zsh. Best of both worlds.

    One thing that I still don't know how to do is go to the next result in the search with Ctrl+r. Makes it less useful lol

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    Press Ctrl+r and Ctrl+s to cycle through.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    In Bash you just hit ctrl+r again, and again, until you found what you're looking for

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    This was recently mentioned in another post, but I don’t see it here: fzf make CTRL+R much easier to use. Bonus: in zsh you can start typing a command and then hit the up arrow to show only commands that start the same.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    Up arrow all the way!

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    [opens terminal and hits control-R]

    My mind has been expanded. How come no one told me of this before? This surf-and-turfs the fuck out of mashing up.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    Ctrl+R just changed everything for me now, thank you

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    CTRL+R is the GOAT.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Ctrl p is the appropriate keystroke to replace the up arrow.

    [–] Alfi 2 points 1 year ago

    history |grep

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
    [–] Quills 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Wait there is another way to see previously executed commands in bash besides the up arrow?