For many users who get started with the command line in Linux, there’s a good chance they’re using Bourne Again Shell, or Bash. Bash is the default shell on Mac OS X, and Windows users can use Bash ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great American Bash has a rich history that dates back to 1985. The show has been held under multiple banners, ranging from ...

Command history can be very handy for repeating commands that you’ve used recently, even when you need to modify them in some way before using them again. You can reuse previously entered commands by ...

Having a history of shell commands is a great idea. It is, of course, enormously handy when you have to run something repetitively or you make a simple mistake that needs correction. However, as I’ve ...

Ever wondered why programming in Bash is so difficult? Bash employs the same constructs as traditional programming languages; however, under the hood, the logic is rather different. The Bourne-Again ...

This might be a little OT for all of you, but it’s an interesting piece nonetheless. Allan Odgaard of TextMate put together an interesting little piece about the bash shell history system including ...

I learned a bit about ! history references when I used to use csh in the days before GNU, but upgrading to tcsh gave me cursor keys. I did use !?blah? sporadically on bash for a while until I ...