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Friday, September 17, 2010

Repeating a series of commands in bash

Wow, this was really cool... captured from a thread on reddit..

I learnt something handy in BASH recently - operate-and-get-next (Ctrl-o). If you type:
  $ echo one
  one
  $ echo two
  two
  $ echo three
  three
Then up-arrow back to 'echo one'. Then press Ctrl-o instead of enter it will execute the command and display the following one in your history ('echo two' in this case).Very handy for replaying a series of commands.

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