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by JetSpiegel 4177 days ago
Just use Ctrl-R in bash to search backwards in the history
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scarecrowbob 4176 days ago
I didn't know you could do that, so it's good to have an option- thanks.

But how do you then pipe that to tail? :D

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JetSpiegel 4176 days ago
You don't, it's a readline thing, it doesn't really generate a file you can manipulate. (I expect to be proven wrong with some insane one-liner though).

What you can do is press Ctrl-R again and it will search the older match. There's also forward match but I can't recall the shortcut.

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