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[Brian Fahrlander]

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Tim Frost wrote:
> 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)

    (Not the OP)  Thanks!  I've wondered where that was, for the longest
time.  :)

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