The Definitive Guide to Bash Command Line History

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June 05, 2008, 16:59

@Mike, I'm not positive, but that could be a feature of being in vi mode on the command line rather than the default readline/emacs style key bindings.

There's actually a good post on this blog about vi mode.
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-sheet/

In vi, I know you can do a search with "/" and I wouldn't be surprised if you could then up arrow through commands.

Alternatively, most shells that I've used support using the arrow keys to maneuver through history (without using a slash).

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