[NTLUG:Discuss] Silly noobie question - history

[Richard Witt]

* Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com> [2007-02-08 08:17]:
> At a command line, I use the up arrow and scroll through the history 
> list looking for a command.  Once I get up a hundred or so lines, I 
> decide not to use a command up there.  Is there a quick keystroke to 
> take me back to an empty command line, or must I always just scroll back 
> down?
> 

how about instead of scrolling up using the arrows you just use the
history command to search for the previous command you were looking for.
Something like:

history |grep <command>

I have found this VERY  useful and have even created and alias because i
use it so much. 

-- 
Richard Witt
They are smoking crack. -- Linus Torvalds, referring to the SCO Group's
claim that Linux contains a million lines of code from unix.