Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > 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":
Here you say "white" in lower case letters. > 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 Your history only shows "White" with a capitalized 'W'. > (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? What you are missing is that the search is case sensitive. The "Wh" in "White" is *not* matched by "wh" with lower case 'w'. There are no more matches available for "wh" other than "why" and so typing any letter other than 'y' doesn't match anything. You can press DEL (the Backspace key) and back up and try a different letter. Bob
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