bash history

[Tim Frost]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 17:11 -0500, John Dangler wrote:
> i used to use h or history for shell history..
> I'm looking for the command that will show the last tar command I ran...
> 
> !tar apparently tries to run every tar command I entered...
! tells the shell to RUN the LAST command that matches.

To search, use CTRL-R, then type what you are searching for.  This will
find the most recent matching entry.  To search for previous
occurrences, just press CTRL-R to scroll through the history.
You can then edit the command, before running it (hit ENTER to run the
command)

Tim