Linux – Search Alt+F2 history in Cinnamon desktop environment

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I wonder if there's some way to search the Alt+F2 "runner" history most preferably within the dialog itself. I know that in Cinnamon the values are available in dconf-editor under org.cinnamon command-history but I'm not sure how to take advantage of this knowledge

Currently on Linux Mint 15 if that matters.

EDIT:

To be clear, I know that I can cycle through history with Up and Down arrow. I'm looking for a way to quickly find a command I might have run months ago.

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Sorry, but there isn't such feature. The key shema only stores the commands run, without timestamp nor any other feature. You can run dconf read /org/cinnamon/command-history to get a list and look at the first entry, but apart of that, there's nothing implemented in place that allows you to do this.

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bash Command Line – Quickly Replace Parameter in Piped Command Chain

I've run into a similar situation and present my solution here just in case it's a useful pattern.

Once I realize that I'm repeatedly changing one piece of data that's annoying to replace interactively, I'll stop and write a little while loop:

$ command-producing-multi-line-output | grep -i "needle" | wc -l
0
$ command-producing-multi-line-output | grep -i "haystack" | wc -l
0
$ while read needle; do

Up-Arrow to the previous command-producing-multi-line-output line and replace "haystack" with "$needle"

command-producing-multi-line-output | grep -i "$needle" | wc -l; done
something
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something else
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gold
1

(ending with Control+D)

Or the slightly fancier variation:

$ while read needle; do
printf 'For: %s\n' "$needle"
command-producing-multi-line-output | grep -i "$needle" | wc -l; done

If I see a future for this command-line beyond "today", I'll write it into a function or script.

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