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submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You saying I can just skip cat in that command and it works?

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

history | grep 'cat'

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago

My output was empty for that command.

Guess why?
Because history only gives the last few lines in my system.

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[–] neox_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

grep ~/.bash_history

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[–] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

How did I not know this. Thank you!

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[–] oozynozh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

it's grep STRING FILE to be precise

or awk '/STRING/′ FILE if you prefer that for some reason

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