Oh yes I know how it feels.

Ctrl+r FFS

I grep for it in ~/.bash_history

@arantr This command is probably the most holy gift the Gods of terminals have given to us. Never thought I would say this, but the day I found this out is still in my memories.

hh changed my life: https://github.com/dvorka/hstr

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Personally, i use fish with vi shortcut. It saves me so much time :D
Sometime it's like your terminal can read your mind XD

zsh is the holy grail for this, you start typing the command and press up and it gives you the last commands that start with the given text.
Ex.: you did `tar -czf test.pdf test.tar` , if you type `tar` and press up it gives you the whole `tar -czf test.pdf test.tar` 😍

Totally relatable.. "I know I made this command not too long ago, so just scroll back a bit.. Or was that on the other server?"

@azous it's even better than you advertise. It gives you the last command containing the string, not just starting with. Love zsh!

I'd usually do; history | grep <command>

I love u fzf's (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) replacement for Ctrl + R which allows you to fuzzy search in your history.
Apart from being an awesome tool anyways.

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Definitely agree with ctrl+r and grepping bash_history. But I've always wanted this to just work: for when you overshoot the command with ctrl, use ctrl+s to go back, brilliant when it works without stty -ixon http://superuser.com/q/472846/...

@FractalSystems Thank you! That's gonna help me a lot :)

xD so its not only me 😂😂

Reverse search watahell people

$ cat ~/.initrc

## arrow up

"\e[A":history-search-backward

## arrow down

"\e[B":history-search-forward

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