I also recommend Atuin, the better shell history that works with most shells and can replace both up arrow and ctrl-r
Let me teach you about reverse-i-search in bash…
I was just about to ask how the hell anyone remembers or knows all these commands, thanks for the info! I am trying to learn Linux and get used to using the Terminal more often.
Yep, thats a good one. Another one,
ALT + .inputs the last argument from your last command, pressing it multiple times cycles thorough your past arguments.Yeesh, I just learned something new. Thanks!
I don’t even want to think about how much effort this has saved me.
Ctrl-R
Try it. Please, I beg you.
This thread is full of great solutions that I know I will ignore…
Very useful tip: i have ls aliased to eza which is ls with eyecandy, I have la aliased to eza -a and I have cd aliased to cd && eza which makes navigating folders very easy. I also aliased … to cd … for convenience. I know a lot of people are purists about the terminal but i think this is a good ballance between convenience and simplicity. Doesnt do a lot of the cursed stuff ricers like to do.
cdis azoxidealias for me. If I need to navigate by folder content, I haveyaziony
cd -will bring you to the last directory you were in.
