find old command terminal code example
Example 1: ubuntu search for command used
> grep "the_search" ~/.bash_history
--Don't forget the -i flag if you need case insensitive search.
Example 2: find old command terminal
history | grep "foo*"
Example 3: histroy of commands
Highly recommended command to use in terminal for reviewing commands and
reuse some of them. Just execute in terminal:
history
Also recommended to use together with grep for filtering a specific used command
history | grep "foo*"
Example 4: linux history command
Just check the enumeration of your commands history and then delete them:
history -d 7