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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Monday February 19, 2007
09:26 AM

!find

[ #32437 ]

You know, when you're running bash, it's real fun to type !find discover that the last find command ended with | xargs rm. Fortunately it was only deleting vim swap files I didn't need, so no harm done, but I must remember ctrl-r in the future.


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  • I've been bitten by something similar in the past which is why I always scroll through my bash history with my arrow keys so that I can see the exact command before hitting enter. You know, just in case ;-)
  • "\e[A": history-search-backward
    "\e[B": history-search-forward

    That way, up and down arrow search through history lines that begin with what you've just entered.

    • Someone else recommended Magic Space [ukuug.org] to me just now. Today's the first I've ever heard of .inputrc and now I hear it twice in one day :)

      Thanks for the tip. It works great.

    • And just to make sure:

        set +H
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