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Mar 182008
 

Search the history of commands you have executed

Answer:

You typed a lot of commands, and you want to search them, the simplest method is to press Ctrl+r

# [press Ctrl+r]

(reverse-i-search)`da': date

In the above example, I typed the characters "da" and the shell auto matched the command "date" for me - which I have typed in an earlier session.

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