Ubuntu – Selective command-history in the terminal

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Within a terminal, when you press up in your keyboard, you get to see the past commands you have given to it before in order. I was wondering if there was a way to see only the commands in the past starting with -for instance, "ls -l". That way, if the list of commands is:

  1. ls -l -a
  2. cmake
  3. cd ~/Desktop
  4. cmake

A way to just write "ls" and tab or whatever combination of key-strokes needed to pop up the past command giving in to the terminal starting with "ls"

Thanks,

Best Answer

It won't show things only starting with ls, but you can do Ctrl-R ls to do a backwards search through history. Repeat Ctrl-R to find the next match.

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