Recently I ran across a trick on the net. I use iPython quite a bit, and I love how I can type a partial history command, and then use up/down to cycle through the recently used commands/code lines. I thought it would be pretty cool to have this same technique available in the bash prompt. After a bit of searching, I found some results, so here you go:
# Enable bash history export HISTCONTROL=erasedups export HISTSIZE=10000 shopt -s histappend # These set up/down to do the history searching bind '"\e[A"':history-search-backward bind '"\e[B"':history-search-forward
