Bash History

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:31:35AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (09/06/06 11:49), OOzy Pal wrote:
> > in Konsole, I remember long time ago that I can write a letter then
> > click on arrow up or down to navigate through the bash history. Only
> > history that starts with the letter I entered will appear. i.e. if I
> > do:
> > 
> > $ apachectl configtest
> > $ rm abc
> > $ ls -a
> > $ ls -l
> > $ rm -fr *
> > 
> > then I type r in the konsole and click up/down arrow I can only see
> > the rm abc and rm -fr * commands.

I have this function mapped to PgUp and PgDn.  To do that I created a
file called .inputrc in my home directory with the following content:

  "\e[5~": history-search-backward
  "\e[6~": history-search-forward

I found this tip on
http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2005/10/13/search-history-in-bash/

> > I did this in Mandrake 7.
> > 
> > If I am making sense, how can I do this in Ubuntu?

Create an ~/.inputrc file.  It is documented by 'man readline' (search for
the INITIALIZATION FILE section).

HTH,
Marius Gedminas
-- 
(mental note: stop installing red hat. everytime i do so, it takes ages to fix
my system again.)
		-- from the sig of Martin Högman
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