Hola! This is debian squeeze amd64. I am reading the laudauble site http://www.markus-gattol.name/ws/bash.html
about using bash history. So I'm trying to use Ctrl-R to do reverse search in the history. Thia is what happens; I try to search for "white": kje...@kjetil:~$ history | tail 284 Sunday 2010-11-14 [19:37:03 -0300] history 10 285 Sunday 2010-11-14 [19:37:03 -0300] cat .bash_history | grep wget 286 Sunday 2010-11-14 [19:37:03 -0300] history | head 287 Sunday 2010-11-14 [19:37:03 -0300] du 288 Sunday 2010-11-14 [19:37:03 -0300] echo "White cat" 289 Sunday 2010-11-14 [19:37:03 -0300] ! 290 Sunday 2010-11-14 [19:37:03 -0300] echo "White cat" 291 Sunday 2010-11-14 [19:37:03 -0300] echo "Black duck" echo "Black duck" 292 Sunday 2010-11-14 [19:37:03 -0300] aptitude why patch 293 Sunday 2010-11-14 [19:42:01 -0300] history | tail (reverse-i-search)`wh': aptitude why patch --- After typing "wh" (without the quotes), it does not accept more letters! Why? What am I doing wrong? Kjetil -- "If you want a picture of the future - imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever." George Orwell (1984) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimyl1snghnagpvvyladsmcfsph6ostsk_xwv...@mail.gmail.com
