I am lazy. And I am a developer. Some would even say that I am a developer because I am lazy.
Also, my memory is not what it used to be. So, often times, I can not remember the exact syntax of a command I kind of recall typing in the bash shell.
For example, I kind of recall that in order to build and deploy one particular app for QA, I need to run a gradle task with a parameter containing the letters “QA”. But I don’t recall the specific format.
Here comes history to the rescue. A fuzzy search on the history is easy:
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$ history|grep QA 278 ./gradlew internalQA --info 279 ./gradlew clean internalQA --info 280 ./gradlew clean internalQA --info 287 ./gradlew internalQA 290 ./gradlew clean internalQA $ |
Now, I can execute any of those particular results directly by number, just doing:
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$ !279 |