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[-] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

You saying I can just skip cat in that command and it works?

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

history | grep 'cat'

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

My output was empty for that command.

Guess why?
Because history only gives the last few lines in my system.

[-] neox_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

grep ~/.bash_history

[-] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

How did I not know this. Thank you!

[-] oozynozh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

it's grep STRING FILE to be precise

or awk '/STRING/′ FILE if you prefer that for some reason

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