Re: Better way to execute commands from history?

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/9/2 sam reckoner <sam.reckoner@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> I am in the habit of doing the following:
>
> % fc -l -1000| grep -i cd | grep -i link | tail -1 | cut -d" " -f3
>
> which gives me the number of the command that contains both "cd" and
> "link" in it. I then manually type in
>
> % !num
>
> where num is the output of the first command. I know there is a C-R
> command, but doing it as above makes it possible to search the entire
> string in the history list for multiple items.
>
> I'm sure there's a better way to do this.

If you rebind ^R (and ^[^R) to history-incremental-pattern-search-forward
(the default is without the "pattern-"), you can press ^R and type cd*link
to get the same result, but you can iterate backwards as usual too.

bindkey "^R"   history-incremental-pattern-search-backward
bindkey "^[^R" history-incremental-pattern-search-forward


-- 
Mikael Magnusson