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Old 04-18-2009
Previously run command.
Hi,
In HP-UNIX I used to use ! before the command and type a portion of the comnand then if that command was previously run the whole line used to appear.

Eg : wc -l samplefile.txt

Next if I type !wc And Tab the previously run command would appear on the command prompt.

How to achive this in LINUX?

Thanks and Regards,
Gideon.
# 2  
Old 04-18-2009
I resort to !$ to repeat the immediately previous command or else run:
$ history | grep wc
get the line number and then type:
$ !<linenumber>

This is for bash, perhaps a bash shell guru will come up with a better answer?
# 3  
Old 04-20-2009
MySQL
Oh well that was nice.Smilie

I found another way, just want to share it here.

Type Ctrl + R. That will take us to the searh mode and the word typed would get the matching string in the latest command.

Again as you mentioned any one liners for the intial questions would be great!

Thanks for your reply sir!!!

Thanks and regards,
Gideon.
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