*nix shell prefix-restricted history search?

1 points by _0ffh 7y ago ↗ HN

I've got a question about *nix shells. We all now that "cursor up" usually searches through the history. Do you know of any shell where I can type the beginning of a command, and then "cursor up" will search history only through the entries which start with what I have typed in already?

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ergl 7y ago ↗

You can set up your terminal to do this for you, see https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/402398

yesenadam 7y ago ↗

Bash can do that, with Ctrl-r. Press Ctrl-r, then type beginning of command, then press Ctrl-r repeatedly to go back through history.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...

That page also deals with stuff like getting bash not to delete history with each session, so searching history can be more useful.