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On 30 Jan 2014 17:09, "Brad Rogers" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:40:45 +0000
> Kevin Lucas <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Kevin,
>
> >History is great for this
>
> Up to a point, yes. Trouble is, it's hard to do fuzzy searches of the
> history, and if I can't remember enough to perform a regular search, I'm
> still stymied. :-(
>
> By that I mean I can usually recall coming across the problem before,
> but have no idea what the command was to enable me to search for the
> correct solution in the history file. As a result, I end up going back
> to $FavouriteSearchEngine. Again.
>
You can suffix your commands with a #comment, that way you can grep your history for the comments too - great way to categorize and tag your command history just in case you know you won't remember exactly what it did.
Grant
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