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Effectively Use History Commands in Linux (itsfoss.com)
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[-] mbw@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

If you have fzf installed, it is easy to integrate it with your bash history. In my .bashrc, I have:

# Introduce fzf-driven functionality as described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fzf.
source /usr/share/fzf/key-bindings.bash
source /usr/share/fzf/completion.bash

Also, you may be interested in zoxide, which keeps track of paths you have navigated to. Also from my .bashrc:

# Enable an autojump-like 'j' command. Use 'ji M' to select paths starting with M using fzf.
# This needs to always come last.
eval "$(zoxide init --cmd j bash)"
[-] redbr64@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I just started using both recently and it's great. For the fzf file search, there's even some extension that can show a preview pane of text files and even images!

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