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We often put together complex commands -....... and then we forget them
How can we reuse those brilliant pieces of (lacking) know how or how can we find them again? You know -that brilliant tip from the guru on that site that you forgot - needless to say you forgot the command itself......but it was something with urpmi

Fear no more the command will come to your rescue
It will give you the list over all commands executed and in historical order:
It does not care if the command was correct or not - this is the history right or wrong -basta!

Now i find that

sudo urpmi --auto-update -a

hard to remeber so I will just execute it by executing its number in the history table.
Like this:

And wonder of all wonders it is executed directly

Now this can be a bit dangerous because I do not get a peek at the command first - it just executes. And that could potentially
So how do I get to have a look at the command first?

Will do it! By adding the :p (for peek) you can have a look at it first.

To add the previous command you can do a:
or To add the command before that you can do a: and so on.
So to have a peek at three commands back what do we do?
You guessed it:


But it gets better
I am lousy with numbers and I don't even remember what I did one command back But I know it was starting with sudo urpmi so I do a:

And there it goes - doing the
If I want to have a look at the command starting with urpmi?

Or the last command starting with pacman (Arch): etc etc...
You do not even need to remember the entire command. If you want commands executed with ssh and only remember ss just do a:
It will output something like this;

I just needed to write this down in case I forget

This is very good. Using konsole, where 'Ctrl-r' will step back in history, and having done several new installations, saving /home, recently, I think I run up against a limitation for going back, albeit konsole scrollback is set to unlimited and, I figure, this record is kept in my $HOME.

Also, 'Ctrl-r' seems to break down as soon as I typo, so that is not so nice.

It looks like your Tips and Tricks is more powerful, thanks!

And there we have another tip from our Guru:
Hit <CTRL>+r and enter the search word. It will have the same effect, and do an even more elegant search. Thanks! (Well... unless you do a typo )
In fact I can even correct typos in my Mandriva 2010.2