stolen from floss@hispanilandia.net XMPP channel
image of a cat looking at a bunch of paper a woman shows it, with the header “cat ~/.bash_history”
XEAL, A colleague mocked me the other day because I didn’t know about the “history” command and I was using “cat .bash_history”
vox, 
the what command?
meekah, (edited ) 
they mean arrow up, right?
Rin, So, yk how the history command outputs something like this:
<span style="color:#323232;">1 Abcd </span><span style="color:#323232;">2 Efgh </span><span style="color:#323232;">3 Ijkl </span>If you run
!2, you will runEfgh.It blew my mind the first time I saw it, but maybe I’m just stupid.
lemann, TIL
rtxn, Learn some more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXx7b0uCWkk
XEAL, I actually use quite frequently "sudo !!“, but I didn’t know the details of why it worked…
Now I see more sense in using the history command, specially combined with grep.
platypus_plumba, Same here, I just assumed it was a special thing that saved the last command. Had no idea it was actually a query to the history
Presi300, 
laughs in fish shell
dukk, laughs harder in nushell
Pantherina, Laughs hardest in nutshell
caseyweederman, cries in kornshell
Pantherina, Ponies in Ponyshell?
JackGreenEarth, Get your Apple product placement out of here!
RegalPotoo, 
Talk to your cat about
set +o historybefore they end up leaking credentials
palordrolap, Can also recommend
HISTFILE="", which amounts to the same thing.
ludwik, Real OGs put a space right after the prompt.
RegalPotoo, Not quite. Unsetting
HISTFILE, or setting it to an invalid path will mean the shell doesn’t update the history file while it quits.set +o historymakes the shell stop recording until you doset -o history, which is useful if you want shell history generally, but don’t want some specific commands to be recorded - if you just unset HISTFILE, the commands still show up if you press the up arrow
synae, 
Ctrl-R
tetraodon, Another fzf’er
creditCrazy, 
Scammers trying to make a virus to infect Linux users
rickdg, 
Not enough bashing.
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