Questions tagged [command-history]
recall commands previously typed in a shell or other utility
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Running XFCE on Debian Trixie. Bash history is not saving any sudo commands
Bash history works OK for except for sudo commands. Code from .bashrc follows. How can I modify the behaviour to include anything starting with sudo? NOTE. This behaviour is the same with a brand new ...
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How to use bash history on a mac?
I've got MacBook from work and try to make it work similar to Linux. This is my config for history in bash: # When the shell exits, append to the history file instead of overwriting it export ...
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history -cw does not overwrite ~/.bash_history file
I use Arch Linux and bash. I've identified the following and can't understand how it works. The first issue is: history -cw doesn't clear ~/.bash_history file but history -c ; history -w does. The ...
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local zsh history on up-arrow, global zsh-history on ctrl-R
I am looking for a very specific behavior in my Zsh terminals. I have multiple terminal windows open at the same time. On each terminal window, if I hit the up arrow, I'd like for it to go up through ...
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"history-search-backward" but ignore sudo prefix in zsh?
According to this page: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Zsh-Line-Editor.html history-search-backward: "Search backward in the history for a line beginning with the first word in the buffer....
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Up-arrow does not complete the typed command in gdb, but instead iterates through all the history
I am having trouble with gdb. When I start pushing the Up Arrow key, it iterates backwards through the history. However, if I start typing a command, like b, instead of iterating only through history ...
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Using bash history expansion, how do I rerun the last command with a different last word?
NOTE: I plan on answering my own question. This is the last command I ran on the command line: git co head -- a/path/to/a/file.ts I want to run this a few more times but with different file paths for ...
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Bash setting on duplicate history lines doesn't work
Why does the Bash setting on duplication affairs not work? In .bashrc: export HISTCONTROL=erasedups:ignoredups It keeps recording ie. writing every command typed in CLI into .bash_history EDIT : That ...
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