Tips tagged history


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Tip #107   Use history to SUDO last command

Forget that your running as underprivileged? No need to retype the command.

> command_with_insufficient_permissions
Permission denied

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Tip #150   Up/down arrow keys for searching history

Add the following to your ~/.inputrc to make the up and down keys search your history (using what you have typed in already as a prefix) rather than just go through all history items:

"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward
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