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by themulticaster 1552 days ago
You might enjoy the fzf (fuzzy finder) tool configured for your shell's history search keybinding (most likely Ctrl+R). I can't elaborate at the moment, but essentially you type Ctrl+R, start typing roughly what you want and fzf searches your shell history based on what you typed. It works extremely well for me. Based on what you described, fzf Ctrl+R should be your workflow on steroids.

Link: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

In particular, shell key bindings for fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#key-bindings-for-command-lin...