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

@zak history | grep

@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.

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

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

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

@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

@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.

@zak just once more

@zak

As many as it takes.

Shame on anyone who capitulates for the easy way out.

@zak Once…

And then I remember that ^R using `fzf` is so much more effective!

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

@zak 10?

@zak I should add that with zsh I use auto suggestion and tab completion for just about anything. Makes it faster than up arrow 100x

Maybe 3-4.

Its Ctrl-R I have trouble quitting!

@zak Variable. It depends on the length of the command!