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ZSH alias for grep'ing the history command easily
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# in your .zshrc add:
alias HG='history | grep '
# reload ZSH (using my default location as an example)
. ~/.zshrc
# Now run: ``HG something_of_interest`` and your history is grepped for said interesting something.
@kymtwyf
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kymtwyf commented Oct 13, 2015

very helpful

@olejorgenb
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This only greps the very last entries though? (history 0 fixes this)

@codewisdom
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I figured this out after someone showed me cat ~/.bash_history | grep Until now, I haven't been a big grep user... I spend way too much time in Windoze.

@cbilgili
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Thanks. I was trying like history | grep "$1". But your method is simpler

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