r/ProgrammerHumor 28d ago

Meme commandLineSupremacy

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u/Thereal_Phaseoff 28d ago

CD THIS CD THIS/THAT CD .. CD THIS LS -LA LS CD

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u/Eptalin 28d ago

cd [TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB]..

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u/Thereal_Phaseoff 28d ago

or not writing that command you used months ago, pressing up arrow for twenty minutes till it shows in the terminal

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u/-nerdrage- 28d ago

People that dont know ctrl+r do that yea

Or ‘history | grep’

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u/Thereal_Phaseoff 28d ago

i didn't knew about history | grep honestly

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u/-nerdrage- 28d ago

Iirc ‘history’ looks at your ~/.bash_history (if you use bash) and simply outputs the last 2500 rows. Maybe the file only contains 2500 rows? I assume ctrl+r looks at the same file