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I recently saw an article on the internet. Using that by typing the first letter and pressing ↑ would show me the command starting with that letter.
For example let this be my command history:

sudo -s
ls
nautilus

Now if I type s and press ↑ would show me 

sudo -s

How can I acheive this?

M.Tarun
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    Type `history` in Terminal. All command history are stored in `~/.bash_history` file – αғsнιη Jun 29 '14 at 08:40
  • That doesn't answer my question. – M.Tarun Jun 29 '14 at 08:46
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    possible duplicate of [Bash history search, partial + up-arrow](http://askubuntu.com/questions/59846/bash-history-search-partial-up-arrow) – TuKsn Jun 29 '14 at 08:53
  • Your question is _How to see command history?_ and my answer is current for your question. change your question title first. – αғsнιη Jun 29 '14 at 16:15
  • I able not able to figure out an appropriate one. Will you help me in figuring out a title for this quesion? – M.Tarun Jun 29 '14 at 16:18
  • The title is the first thing potential answerers will see, and if your title is clear [_like yours_], they won't read the rest – αғsнιη Jun 30 '14 at 04:47

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Two more useful things to know about this...

To execute a specific command from your history, you can just type an exclamation point followed by the number of the command as listed by history. So, to re-execute command number 510.

!510

To rerun your previous command just type two exclamation points. So when you run a command that needs super-user privileges and you forgot to do that - just give it the old “sudo bang bang” treatment:

sudo !!
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