Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 04, 2006 03:26 AM
One of the things that prevents my switching to bash is the absence of an equivalent to tcsh's Esc-p keybinding.
Say your history looks like this:
23 PS1="\! bash$ "
24 ls -l
25 cat temp
26 rm temp
27 vim memo
28 lpr memo
29 vim memo
30 lpr memo
31 rm memo
32 history | tail
In tcsh, if you type "l" (the letter L) followed by Esc-p, history is searched backwards for the first command that started with "l". Keep hitting Esc-p and it keeps going back in history to find the correct one.
So in this case, you would first see "lpr memo", then "ls -l", etc. If you pass the one you want, you can go back by hitting Esc-n.
In many instances, it really beats the pants off bash's Ctrl-r.
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Re:interactive way
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 04, 2006 03:26 AMSay your history looks like this:
23 PS1="\! bash$ "
24 ls -l
25 cat temp
26 rm temp
27 vim memo
28 lpr memo
29 vim memo
30 lpr memo
31 rm memo
32 history | tail
In tcsh, if you type "l" (the letter L) followed by Esc-p, history is searched backwards for the first command that started with "l". Keep hitting Esc-p and it keeps going back in history to find the correct one.
So in this case, you would first see "lpr memo", then "ls -l", etc. If you pass the one you want, you can go back by hitting Esc-n.
In many instances, it really beats the pants off bash's Ctrl-r.
Is there the same thing in Bash?
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