bdario
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How bash shell may emulate Dos F8 or F7 history search
Hi,
i'm quite a newbye of Linux OS. I used to work with MS Windows and the relative Dos shell.
On Linux I really miss a very interesting Dos shell feature. Infact, under Dos, it is possible to write the first word(s) of a command and then press the F8 key, to search against the command history and find the last typed command beginning with that word(s).
For example, suppose that in my Dos session I type the following commands:
dir c:\
format a:
del c:\test\deleteme.txt
rename c:\test\renameme.txt c:\test\newname.txt
Now if I want to type again the command "format a:" it is only necessary to type:
c:\>f
or
c:\>for
and then press F8 on my keyboard to complete the sentence. I don't have to search the history by moving with the arrows on my keyboard.
Pressing F7 on a Dos prompt I can see a menu with the last typed commands, from which i can choose.
Does anyone know how to implement these features in Linux? Especially the first one (F8)?
Thanks
Dario
i'm quite a newbye of Linux OS. I used to work with MS Windows and the relative Dos shell.
On Linux I really miss a very interesting Dos shell feature. Infact, under Dos, it is possible to write the first word(s) of a command and then press the F8 key, to search against the command history and find the last typed command beginning with that word(s).
For example, suppose that in my Dos session I type the following commands:
dir c:\
format a:
del c:\test\deleteme.txt
rename c:\test\renameme.txt c:\test\newname.txt
Now if I want to type again the command "format a:" it is only necessary to type:
c:\>f
or
c:\>for
and then press F8 on my keyboard to complete the sentence. I don't have to search the history by moving with the arrows on my keyboard.
Pressing F7 on a Dos prompt I can see a menu with the last typed commands, from which i can choose.
Does anyone know how to implement these features in Linux? Especially the first one (F8)?
Thanks
Dario
ASKER
Hi sunnycoder,
thanks for your quick reply but your solution does not implement the same feature.
Infact i cannot see which command will be executed and it's quite a risk.
Moreover, pressing again F8 in a Dos Shell, i can scroll the list of the last commands beginning with the words typed.
Thanks again
thanks for your quick reply but your solution does not implement the same feature.
Infact i cannot see which command will be executed and it's quite a risk.
Moreover, pressing again F8 in a Dos Shell, i can scroll the list of the last commands beginning with the words typed.
Thanks again
ASKER
Thanks, it's a very long page! :)) Which paragraph in particular?
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On your command prompt type !beg where beg is the first few beginning characters of your command and bash will locate the last command beginning with same characters and execute it
Sunnycoder