[ale] i hate csh

[Prasanna Subash]

In vi mode you could do an ESC-/ and search for patterns in the history, in 
ksh.

On Friday 25 January 2002 06:34 pm, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I know in ksh you had to set up the history.
>
> set -o emacs
>
>
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> From: Swantje Willms [mailto:swillms at mail.sis.pitt.edu]
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 6:12 PM
> To: Michael Golden
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> Or you can go backwards in your history with Ctrl-p and then just hit
> Return to execute that command again.
>
> On 25 Jan 2002, Michael Golden wrote:
> > > I don't think bash does that. Speaking of which, I also miss the
> > > "r" command in ksh for repeating a command in your history ...
> >
> > I'm not familiar with ksh so I'm not sure exactly what "r" command you
> > mean. But, in bash, you can run "history"  to get a list of all of the
> > commands you've run. (I assume it pulls them from ~/.bash_history) and
> > then you can run "!?" replacing ? with the number as reported by
> > history. Is that similar?
> >
> > Michael
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