Yeah standard bash Ctrl+r is just so painful. I much rather use “history | grep searchtearm” than that awfull search. fzf is a whole other level. But nowadays I just use fish shell which IMO has even better search than fzf
I have been suggested alternative programs to install to work with Ctrl+r, which are supposed to work better, but I just end up using kwrite ~/.bash_history when Ctrl+r fails.
I accidentally stumbled across Ctrl+r over a decade ago and I still don’t understand properly how it works. So I usually egrep -e someInsaneRegex ~/.bash_history
The part of the tech stack that handles all these command editing and navigation shortcuts is the readline library. Check out man readline. There’s an entire section on searching. readline is used for lots of other interpreters, too.
I used fzf before atuin, and it works pretty similar, but atuin has a few additional features, as it tracks more information than the normal shell history. For example, you can also search only for commands that you executed in the current directory (great for stuff that is project specific). Or, if you use the history syncing feature, you can toggle search for commands you executed on either any or only the current machine.
interesting, didn’t know that… Will try!
Finding out about “Ctrl-r” also was a gamechanger.
What does CTRL+R do?
Lets you easily and interactively search your command history.
Half the stuff I do is usually preceded by that, it’s really useful!
Oh that is nice, I usually use ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑
“I knew I had an ls somewhere in my history”
That’s part of the natural progression. Can’t remember if that comes before or after “history | grew command.”
Just wait until you discover fish/zsh autosuggestions.
As annoying as using a non-posix compatible shell sometimes is, fish saves me so much time
Adding fzf to the mix makes Ctrl+r even better.
Yeah standard bash Ctrl+r is just so painful. I much rather use “history | grep searchtearm” than that awfull search. fzf is a whole other level. But nowadays I just use fish shell which IMO has even better search than fzf
I have been suggested alternative programs to install to work with
Ctrl+r, which are supposed to work better, but I just end up usingkwrite ~/.bash_historywhenCtrl+rfails.Next step is discovering atuin! https://atuin.sh/
Thanks!
Haven’t heard that one before. Comes on my growing list of all the stuff I wanna try/setup…
I love atuin!
dude holy shit that is AWESOME! i had something similar, but it was a custom function.
srch() { cat ~/.bash_history | grep -Ein “$@”}
Did you know that grep can take the name of the file(s) you want it to search as the final arguments?
For example:
grep -Ein "$@" ~/.bash_historyi always pipe into grep so sometimes i forget that’s even an option, lol
I accidentally stumbled across Ctrl+r over a decade ago and I still don’t understand properly how it works. So I usually egrep -e someInsaneRegex ~/.bash_history
The part of the tech stack that handles all these command editing and navigation shortcuts is the readline library. Check out
man readline. There’s an entire section on searching. readline is used for lots of other interpreters, too.That is worth it for more complicated things like, “I want all commands that started with git and contained ‘foo’”
Did it like that before, but Ctrl-r is typically just a lot faster.
If you install a fuzzyfinder, like fzf, or skim, you get previews of the search query result and fuzzy search, which is really cool, too.
Ctrl+r is cool, but atuin is oh my gosh great
https://atuin.sh/
isn’t that just fzf with ctrl-R binding
I used fzf before atuin, and it works pretty similar, but atuin has a few additional features, as it tracks more information than the normal shell history. For example, you can also search only for commands that you executed in the current directory (great for stuff that is project specific). Or, if you use the history syncing feature, you can toggle search for commands you executed on either any or only the current machine.
I didn’t know fzf yet. Neat