MCFLY McFly: Get more out of your Bash history
Open source leads to freedom. Freedom leads to choice. Choice leads to angry, neverending Vi vs Emacs and similar discussions on the internet. This paraphrasing of Yoda’s famous quote sums up the open source community rather well – but it also leads in to our tutorial.
For anyone who’s spent time on the terminal, the history expansion feature in is unparalleled in its usefulness. Just as brilliant is the reverse search, which you can invoke with Ctrl+R. Reverse search lets you search for the specified keyword in history, so that you don’t have to type
