Borislav Hadzhiev
Sun Dec 27 2020·1 min read
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Many people know about the shell functionality that when you press the up or down arrow keys you navigate back and forth between commands you've previously used.
However there's a couple of lines you can add to your bashrc
or zshrc
file
to improve this functionality - when you start typing a command i.e. aws
and
press the arrow keys you only navigate between commands you've previously used
that start with aws
In order to enable this, in your .bashrc
add the following lines:
bind '"\e[A": history-search-backward' bind '"\e[B": history-search-forward'
Alternatively if you use zsh add the following lines to your .zshrc
:
bindkey '\eOA' history-beginning-search-backward bindkey '\e[A' history-beginning-search-backward bindkey '\eOB' history-beginning-search-forward bindkey '\e[B' history-beginning-search-forward
Source your shell so the updated config takes effect, i.e.:
source ~/.bashrc
or:
source ~/.zshrc
and start filtering your command history based on input. Start typing a command
i.e. cd
and press the up and down arrows to navigate between previously typed
in commands that match the filter cd
.