Where is bash’s history stored?
If I run history, I can see my latest executed commands.
command-history
How do I close a terminal without saving the history?
More than once I’ve accidentally run a number of commands and polluted my bash history. How do I close my terminal without saving my bash history? I’m using Fedora.
What does !$ mean?
I’m following through a tutorial and it mentions to run this command:
Command-line completion from command history
So, I’ve looked at history and at Ctrl+R, but they are not what I thought I knew.
Is there a way that I can type in the beginning of a command, and cycle through the matches in my history with some bash shortcut?
How can you log every command typed
How can you log every command someone has entered into the shell?
Clipboard for copying and pasting files in command line?
In Bash, suppose I visit a directory, and then another directory. I would like to copy a file from the first directory to the second directory, but without specifying the long pathnames of them. Is it possible?
^x^y unix trick for all instances in last command?
One of my favorite Unix tricks is ^x^y, which will take the last command and replace the first instance of “x” with “y”. However, I’m wondering if a similar trick works to replace all instances of “x” with “y” in the last command?
How to execute consecutive commands from history?
Suppose I want to execute a sequence of four commands that I have executed before. If the first one is 432 in the command-history, then I could do:
How to properly escape exclamation points in bash?
Today, I was caught redhanded while attempting to code golf a password generator for Twitter.
How do I repeat the last command without using the arrow keys?
I know I can use Up to iterate through previous commands. Running the last command simply involves Up + Enter. However, I was thinking of buying the Happy Hacking Keyboard as I spend a lot of time in vim.