I use reverse-i-search often, and that's cool. Sometime though when pressing Ctrl+r multiple times, I pass the command I am actually looking for. Because Ctrl+r searches backward in history, from n...

The one-sentence answer: Run stty -ixon in your terminal, and then use Ctrl+S to change the search direction from backward to forward.

This article is about a few quick thumb rules I use when writing shell scripts that I’ve come to appreciate over the years. Very opinionated....

diff <(grep somestring file1) <(grep somestring file2)

:h

I use this one a lot too. If you put it after a filename, it will change that filename to remove everything up to the folder. Like this:

grep isthere /long/path/to/some/file/or/other.txt
cd !$:h

9. Startup Order
   https://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.html

1) PROMPT_COMMAND
2) HISTTIMEFORMAT
3) CDPATH
See comment:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/456866/how-can-i-suppress-printing-the-full-path-to-subdirectories-when-using-cdpath/456867#456867
4) SHLVL
5) LINENO
6) REPLY
7) TMOUT