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Re:interactive way

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 04, 2006 04:45 PM
Yes, there is something similar, and I'm using it all the time. By changing the setting of bash you can write the start of a command and using the up or down key to cycle through history of command starting with what you typed.

for details, see (that's where I learned about this):
<a href="http://www.geocities.com/h2428/petar/bash_hist.htm" title="geocities.com">http://www.geocities.com/h2428/petar/bash_hist.ht<nobr>m<wbr></nobr> </a geocities.com>

regards,
n.

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