MLUG: [MLUG] Re: tip of the week: Making good use of ~/.inputrc
[MLUG] Re: tip of the week: Making good use of ~/.inputrc
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On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Mike Miller wrote:

From "man bash"

 history-search-forward
        Search  forward through the history for the string of characters
        between the start of the current line and the point.  This is  a
        non-incremental search.
 history-search-backward
        Search backward through the history for the string of characters
        between the start of the current line and the point.  This is  a
        non-incremental search.


I should also add that it is good to look at the 'bind' command in bash. For example,...

bind -P | grep history

...will tell you what some of your keys are doing with your command history.

Mike

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