I believe it’s the fifth oldest - I think!-5 will get you the fifth impost recent, but I was shown that and haven’t put it into practice.
The most common usecase I do is something like history | grep docker to find docker commands I’ve ran, then use ! followed by the number associated with the command I want to run in history.
@papertowels@lemmy.one I’ve been working in the bash shell since 1993 and did not know sudo !! was a thing. Good lord, I no longer have to press up, press crtl-left a bunch of times, then type sudo enter space anymore. And I can give it an easy-to-remember alias like ‘resu’ or ‘redo’! Ahahaha, this changes everything! Thank you!!
sudo !!to rerun last command as sudo.historycan be paired with!5to run the fifth command listed in history.Fifth as in fifth most recent command or fifth oldest?
I believe it’s the fifth oldest - I think
!-5will get you the fifth impost recent, but I was shown that and haven’t put it into practice.The most common usecase I do is something like
history | grep dockerto find docker commands I’ve ran, then use!followed by the number associated with the command I want to run in history.@papertowels@lemmy.one I’ve been working in the bash shell since 1993 and did not know
sudo !!was a thing. Good lord, I no longer have to press up, press crtl-left a bunch of times, then type sudo enter space anymore. And I can give it an easy-to-remember alias like ‘resu’ or ‘redo’! Ahahaha, this changes everything! Thank you!!We’re all learning tricks in this thread! Grateful for all y’all nerds.
Love these, I used a terminal select from history with fuzzy finding to do the !5 as
redo