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		nfg on Oct 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UNIX Tips and Tricks To Save You Time In Terminal > you can do ctrl + r to achieve the same thing. C-r will (usually?) invoke reverse-search-history (http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Commands-F...) in bash (and I'm sure some other shells also).

diggan on Oct 9, 2013 | [–]

That is absolutely true. I meant super + r.

raphdg on Oct 9, 2013 | [–]

I think he meant C-l .

diggan on Oct 9, 2013 | [–]

No, I didn't but that's pretty handy since it doesn't hide the new prompt.

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