On 06/27/2016 07:56 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, SternData <subscribed-li...@sterndata.com> said:
>> Years ago, I used a tool called CED and PCED on DOS systems. I could
>> type in "abc" and press an up-arrow and it would walk back through my
>> stack of DOS commands showing only those with "abc" in them.
>>
>> There's *got* to be a similar tool for bash, but my google-fu is weak today.
>
> control-R is bound to reverse-search-history by default. That will
> search anywhere in previous commands, so for example typing "s" followed
> by ^R would show matches for "ls".
>
> If instead you want to search for commands with the same start (so just
> typing "s" would only show commands that started with "s"), you want
> history-search-backward, which is bound to PageUp on Fedora (not bound
> by default upstream IIRC).
>
I use the following in bashrc
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
bind '"\e[A"':history-search-backward
bind '"\e[B"':history-search-forward
bind '"\e[23~"':"\"\C-k\C-ahistory | grep '^ *[0-9]* *\C-e.'\C-m\""
bind '"\e[24~"':kill-whole-line
bind Space:magic-space
shopt -s histappend
export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a'
if
This privides the same functionality you mentioned for windows plus: F12 erases
the current command line without executing it, F11 will show the entire history
of commands that start with any character typed on the command line before
pressing F11.
The shopt part is supposed to insure that each new command line executed is
saved immediately in the history file, instead of when the shell is closed.
Emmett
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