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What's a handy terminal command you use often? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.