On the console, arrow up and down usually allow to browse through the bash history.
The following entry to ~/.bashrc
allows a similar behaviour with page up and down, but only browsing through the part of the history that starts with the string left of the cursor position.
if [[ $- == i ]]
then
bind ‘”\e[5~”: history-search-backward’
bind ‘”\e[6~”: history-search-forward’
fi
We can alternatively get the same functionality for all programs using the
readline
library (including bash
) by extending ~/.inputrc
with“\e[5~”: history-search-backward
“\e[6~”: history-search-forward
These changes only have an effect after restarting the bash/console.