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0 pointsstoniejohnson2y ago0 comments

Yep, I do `history | grep "<whatever>"` all the time..

I should probably make it a function now that I think about it.

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Most of the shells have built-in recursive search, why not just use that? `Ctrl + R` in bash / fish / zsh at least.

zem2y ago

i usually want to just see all the options at once and pick the one i want, rather than searching through them one by one

zem2y ago

i called my function `fh` for "full history"

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0 pointsstoniejohnson2y ago0 comments

Yep, I do `history | grep "<whatever>"` all the time..

I should probably make it a function now that I think about it.

Most of the shells have built-in recursive search, why not just use that? `Ctrl + R` in bash / fish / zsh at least.

zem2y ago

i usually want to just see all the options at once and pick the one i want, rather than searching through them one by one

zem2y ago

i called my function `fh` for "full history"

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse