How many times will you hit the up arrow before you give up and type a command?

Zak :1password:

#Linux

Fabian Transchel

@zak Easily a hundred times if the command is too long to remember.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@zak Wait, you can just stop and type the command? How does that work?

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

@zak CTRL+r. Nuffsaid.

Herz++

@zak I barely ever need that because fish has contextual history per folder.

arutaz

@zak Hehe. Maybe 10-15

Pseudonymous :antiverified:

@zak

I know what I recently typed and hit up if I know where the command I need will be in the log. Am I weird?

Bill

@zak If I hold it down to scroll, does that count as "one"?

Skalli

@zak

usually one or two times...

type the first few letters of the command and than UP ...

stroz (he/him)

@zak Generally, it's close to 100 times. If I didn't get it, then I cat ~/.zsh_history | grep <thing>

ravenlb :agender_flag:

@zak until the arrow doesn't work any more

Cali

@zak history | grep

Adam Caudill

@zak Thanks for posting this - after several years of using this particular MBP, I finally got around to enabling per-directory history in zsh.

This exact thing has been driving me nuts lately, but I hadn't realised how annoying it was until I started to type a reply.

Zak :1password:

@adam_caudill This is the smart thing to do for sure. I need to get around to doing this, too.

Luyin

@zak @stroz useless use of cat? (grep pattern file is the default, you don't have to pipe into it)

Victoria :neocat_flag_trans::spinny_cat_lesbian:

@zak@infosec.exchange i usually just type the command, although admittedly i dont use terminal much these days

stroz (he/him)

@luyin @zak oh 100% absolutely

This is one of those command line things that I started doing decades ago that it's just muscle memory, and I could be WAY more efficient if I trained myself out if it

Adam Caudill

@zak Luckily, I use oh-my-zsh, so enabling it was just adding the name of a plugin to the .zshrc - less than a minute from start to finish. That'll pay for itself within a day or so.

jasonkarns

@zak just once more

Avoca

@zak

As many as it takes.

Shame on anyone who capitulates for the easy way out.