On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:00:50 -0700, Bob wrote in message <20101114230050.ga7...@hysteria.proulx.com>:
> 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'. ..from grep --help |less: ;o) -i, --ignore-case ignore case distinctions -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- 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/20101115034034.03e2d...@a45.fmb.no
