Re: looking for a BASH tool

2016-06-27 Thread Richard England
On 06/27/2016 07:46 AM, SternData wrote: Years ago, I used a tool called CED and PCED on DOS systems. I could type in "abc" and press an up-arrow and it would walk back through my stack of DOS commands showing only those with "abc" in them. There's *got* to be a similar tool for bash, but my go

Re: looking for a BASH tool

2016-06-27 Thread Emmett Culley
On 06/27/2016 07:56 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, SternData said: >> Years ago, I used a tool called CED and PCED on DOS systems. I could >> type in "abc" and press an up-arrow and it would walk back through my >> stack of DOS commands showing only those with "abc" in them. >> >> The

Re: looking for a BASH tool

2016-06-27 Thread Steven Stern
perfect. Thanks! Yes, everyone, I know about grep. :-) On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:12 AM, FS wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > >> Once upon a time, SternData said: >> > Years ago, I used a tool called CED and PCED on DOS systems. I could >> > type in "abc" and pr

Re: looking for a BASH tool

2016-06-27 Thread Tom Killian
Once upon a time, SternData said: > Years ago, I used a tool called CED and PCED on DOS systems. I could > type in "abc" and press an up-arrow and it would walk back through my > stack of DOS commands showing only those with "abc" in them. > > There's *got* to be a similar tool for bash, but my g

Re: looking for a BASH tool

2016-06-27 Thread FS
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, SternData said: > > Years ago, I used a tool called CED and PCED on DOS systems. I could > > type in "abc" and press an up-arrow and it would walk back through my > > stack of DOS commands showing only those with "abc" in

Re: looking for a BASH tool

2016-06-27 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, SternData said: > Years ago, I used a tool called CED and PCED on DOS systems. I could > type in "abc" and press an up-arrow and it would walk back through my > stack of DOS commands showing only those with "abc" in them. > > There's *got* to be a similar tool for bash, but my

Re: looking for a BASH tool

2016-06-27 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 9:46 AM, SternData wrote: > Years ago, I used a tool called CED and PCED on DOS systems. I could > type in "abc" and press an up-arrow and it would walk back through my > stack of DOS commands showing only those with "abc" in them. > > There's *got* to be a similar tool f

Re: looking for a BASH tool

2016-06-27 Thread Mark Haney
Uh, the history command? history | grep Or there's the UP arrow in the terminal. Does what that DOS tool did. On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:46 AM, SternData wrote: > Years ago, I used a tool called CED and PCED on DOS systems. I could > type in "abc" and press an up-arrow and it would walk ba

looking for a BASH tool

2016-06-27 Thread SternData
Years ago, I used a tool called CED and PCED on DOS systems. I could type in "abc" and press an up-arrow and it would walk back through my stack of DOS commands showing only those with "abc" in them. There's *got* to be a similar tool for bash, but my google-fu is weak today. Thanks for suggesti