The one people see me doing that gets a "huh?" Is:
~$ !find
find -type f -name '*blah*' -print0 | xargs -0 gzip
~$
"Wait! What did you do?" "Oh. Do you not know about bang?"
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This is why I like atuin, I can just press up and start typing part of the command and it will likely find it in my history.
You could already do that with just "Ctrl-R" but without atuin redrawing your screen.
Oh come on! I at least type the beginning so that it filters the history
I feel like there should be a cursed "long way round" for this that involves needlessly copying .bash_history to a "text file", running it through an asciibetical sorter (for "efficiency"), using sed to null out any command which doesn't match the search term...
Featherpad, copy, paste. Extra work, but you get a work log
I wish this wasn't so painfully true.
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