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Re: [Help-bash] Bash history
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Chris F.A. Johnson |
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Re: [Help-bash] Bash history |
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Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:32:04 -0400 (EDT) |
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On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Bharath Bhushan Lohray wrote:
I don't think this will do what I am trying to do. I am trying to
emulate MATLAB console like behaviour in bash. In MATLAB, using the
up arrow key when a few characters are typed, lets the user cycle
only through the commands that begin with those characters.
That's exactly what it does do. Did you try it?
- Bharath
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson <address@hidden> wrote:
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Bharath Bhushan Lohray wrote:
Hi,
I would like to modify the way bash retrieves history at the command
prompt. What source file do I find this part of the code?
I would like to restrict the history retrieval to only the commands
that
begin with the letters at the prompt.
For example -
$ l
<up arrow>
$ ls
<up arrow>
$ ls -alh
<up arrow>
$ ls -lh /var/log
There's no need to play with the source code.
In ~/.inputrc:
"\e[A": history-search-backward ## up-arrow
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