F8 In Cmd The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
— layout: post disqus_identifier: #43 comments: true categories: [ cmd, tips ] — I recently stumbled across DOSKEY while reading StackOverflow. Reading the documentation I stumbled across something old and something new.
>doskey/?
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F7 Displays command history
F8 Searches command history
I knew about F7 and use it constantly when I’m on the command line. It pops up a scrollable list of your recent commands.
F8 lets you cycle through commands in your history with a search term.
Suppose you had previously typed a complex command. In the example I have below, I used the command echo Foxtrot Golf. To find and execute it again all you need to do is type the beginning of the command and then press the F8 key. In the example, I type echo on the command prompt and cycle through all the commands that start with that by pressing F8. To narrow it down a bit more, I type in echo F and then press F8 to get all the commands that start with that. Note that it is case sensitive.
this post was originally on the MasterDevs Blog