[GRLUG] bad commands

[Bob Kline]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:34 PM, John J. Foerch <jjfoerch at earthlink.net>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 03:24:47PM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> > A feature that is almost as old
> > as the shell.  The korn shell had
> > it.  It is indeed an incredibly useful
> > feature.
> >
> > And one useful alias is "alias h=history,"
> > for those that want to list their last N
> > commands frequently.
> >
> >    -- Bob
>
>
> Nice.  I will definitely get good use out of "history".  I had read about
> it but never used it before.  Now I see how useful it is in combination
> with grep and ! syntax.
>
>
>
That's it.  I've used that combo
untold thousands of times over the
decades.  And of course the history
file can save amazing amounts of
typing, as one edits and reuses
previous line commands.  In terms
of productivity, this is one of those
things one tend to get giddy about
after they happen on to it.

   -- Bob
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