CTRL+R

Ctrl-r was right there.

It's either this or history | grep 'some-command'.

Me with git pushes: up up up, enter x3. Like 6 times a day.

history

!982

You forgot a couple down arrows for when you overshoot.

ls

Why would I type out this command that's six whole keystrokes long when I can save time by pressing 'up' twenty times instead?

If you're in this picture try using fzf and backwards search, much more effective, hell even without fzf.

Some of you haven't read the bash manual and it shows.

Blow your mind to know about bang patterns. You've used !! but do you know about !$?

Don't call me out like that lol. Also Atuin is pretty cool for this as you are showed a list of the commands used when you press ⬆️.

The command you want is in the buffered history of a still running terminal that's doing something you don't want to close 💀

Introducing: fish

And then you just need to remember the first letters of the previously typed command

🐟🐟🐟

If you haven't, try McFly - is a much better backwards / history search in the shell.

After a time ypu look into extending the history too... 500line by default is far too short for all the awesome commands