Dig into your history (for bash and zsh) | Linux Today

Dig into your history (for bash and zsh)

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 19, 2010

[ Thanks to linuxaria for this link.
]

“The history command is very useful when you frequently
work at the terminal and you want to invoke a command given in the
past.But there are several options that are not so common or poorly
understood, in this article we’ll see some of them in bash and zsh.
Basic usage

“Show last commands in history.

“Apply to bash and zsh

history”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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