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$ history | grep 'gre[p]' | less -SDoes fuck all when you can't remember even a piece of the command lol
Then how well you know which command it is when scrolling. At that point it's googleing how do I move a file or whatever your looking for.
That's when you start spamming Page Up/Down, Home, End, and
/to search withinless. Usually seeing various commands jogs my memory, especially when they aregrepcommands searching for one I use often enough to be useful but infrequently enough to not remember off the top of my head.This is the answer