this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Y'all know about ctrl-r to search history, right? I went for so many years without even thinking to look for something better than up-arrow, so I have to mention it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait until they learn that you can ctrl+u when you mistyped your password in sudo instead of spamming backspace...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Delete until start of line. So essentially equivalent to spamming backspace a bunch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bro. You just changed my life and don't even realize it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here's another mindfuck: gnu readline is so popular that developers of other software tend to implement its keybinds as hidden features/eastereggs. That's why ctrl+u works in GTK text input boxes as well!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

history | grep

Does the job well if the key combo doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Followed by !xxx where xxx is the number of the command to re-run

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This. I didn't know about CTRL+R, but this has been my goto