command stack in buffer

[Karl F. Larsen]

Patton Echols wrote:
> On 01/05/2010 12:56 AM, vijay shanker wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I hope many of you must be aware of this.
>>
>> When i use a terminal to execute my commands. Some times i need to 
>> execute same command multiple times. So, if i want to choose 
>> a previously executed command, It makes me very tired to choose from 
>> history of command.
> 
> Do you mean that you don't want to scroll through the history to get to 
> the command you want?
> 
> What I use is [Ctrl]+r  Then start typing the command.  What the shell 
> will do is search back through your commands to the most recent match.  
> Sometimes you need to keep typing a few extra characters to get the 
> right one. 
> 
> Example:  I routinely ssh to two different computers.  One is the server 
> in my local network and the command is:
> $ssh pecho at 192.168.168.5
> The other is to vpn and remote desktop to my office using this:
>  ssh -C -p 13254 pecho at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -L 5901:localhost:5900
> 
> if [Ctrl]+R "ssh" gives the first one, then I keep typing until I get to 
> "ssh -" and the shell finds the right one.
> 
> Try it! 
> (BTW this is the bash shell which I believe is the standard in Ubuntu)
>> So , instead of choosing I prefer to go and write it again. But i was 
>> thinking if there existing any thing that can remove duplicates form 
>> the command history?
> 
> 
>> Regards,
>> Vijay Shanker Dubey
>>
> 
> 
	I was just not aware of CtrlR. It works! Thank you, Karl


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