How to quickly scroll to the latest / end of command history in bash?

Question

Lots of times I'll use Ctrl-R for reverse search and mistype some letter. Bash jumps up hundreds of lines and I'm in the middle of commands I was using a week ago.

Is there a shortcut for jumping back down to the lastest commands I had typed?

Edit: after testing it out on a CentOS server and Mac OS X, it looks like this only happening on OS X.

Answer 1

I've struggled with this same issue.

You can solve this by aborting with ctrl-c. Whether you're in the middle of a reverse search or scrolling through history with the arrows, aborting returns you to a prompt with the history scroll just after the last command.

UPDATE

Here's a nice trick I just learned. Bash and many other programs use Readline under the hood for command-line interpretation. Key bindings for Readline can be configured in a .inputrc file or with the bind command. The bindings can make use of a few functions provided by Readline. For example, I use Bash in vi mode but I still like to use Emacs-style ctrl-A so I have this line in my .bashrc file:

bind '\C-a:beginning-of-line'

To list all the available Readline functions: bind -l

Among the functions is end-of-history. The function does like its name suggests. The difference between this approach and just using the abort command is that this keeps you on the same prompt.

Answer 2

If using libreadline, Alt-> (or Meta->). More info on Readline shortcuts or search for Commands for Manipulating the History in the man page.