How can I search the bash history and rerun a command?

Type Ctrl R at the command line and start typing the previous command. Once a result appears keep hitting Ctrl R to see other matches. When the command you want appears, simply press Enter Note that while Ctrl R is the default, if you wanted the command ( ) to be bound to Ctrl T you could configure that with the following: There are a whole host of other readline bindable commands that are available to you as well. Take a look at the man page. Bash has many facilities to search and access inter…