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Say I am in a bash terminal and have a large history of commands. I pressed the up arrow a whole bunch of times and am in the "middle" of the history. I want to now navigate to the first or the last command in my history quickly (without holding down the up or the down arrow for a long time). Is this possible? If so, what is the shortcut key to achieving this?
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Open Start. Search for Command Prompt, and click the top result to open the console. Type the following command to view the command history and press Enter: doskey /history.
Another way to get to this search functionality is by typing Ctrl-R to invoke a recursive search of your command history. After typing this, the prompt changes to: (reverse-i-search)`': Now you can start typing a command, and matching commands will be displayed for you to execute by pressing Return or Enter.
After you have typed what you are looking for, use the CTRL-R key combination to scroll backward through the history. Use CTRL-R repeatedly to find every reference to the string you've entered.
Command history is a feature in many operating system shells, computer algebra programs, and other software that allows the user to recall, edit and rerun previous commands.
Take a look in the man page:
man bash Here I copied for you the thing you were looking for:
previous-history (C-p) Fetch the previous command from the history list, moving back in the list. next-history (C-n) Fetch the next command from the history list, moving forward in the list. beginning-of-history (M-<) Move to the first line in the history. end-of-history (M->) Move to the end of the input history, i.e., the line currently being entered. If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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