[PLUG] Saving terminal commands

[Michael M. Moore]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:08 AM, David Fleck <david.fleck at mchsi.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> Is there a way to make it just give me the command but not run it?
>
> Yes. aliases will do that.  For example,
>
> alias gh='history | grep'
>
> allows me to type
>
>   gh foo
>
> and any of my past commands containing 'foo' will be listed. NOT executed,
> listed.
>

Cool!  I never thought of using aliases involving grep.  Thx much.

Michael M.


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