Tips and tricks for working on the command line
This week’s TechMail is Tips and tricks for working on the command line which points out a few simple things you can do on the CLI to make life easier for yourself, such as renaming files or dealing with history, and some lesser-known character sequences you can use.
Funny thing is this tip has generated quite a few comments already on the site. Unfortunately, most people are talking about Windows and MS PowerShell (whatever that is). Weird.
Quentin
One thing I find _extremely_ useful is the history-search-forward and history-search-backward bash commands. I bind them to crtl-up and ctrl-down. So, for example, by just typing “cd ” then ctrl-up/down, I can browse through previous commands beginning with “cd”.
Nov 14, 2008 @ 10:00:26I’m surprise this feature is so little known, it would be great if it was configured by default.
The only problem is ctrl-up/down doesn’t generate the same thing in putty or in a terminal through vnc, so I have to put 3 lines in .inputrc for each binding