On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Robert Spangler <mlists at zoominternet.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if bash or inputrc has changed form CentOS v4 to CentOS v5? > Reason I ask is at the bash cli I can type, for example 'su' and then with > the up and down arrows I can scroll through my history and will only see the > commands that begin with 'su'. In CentOS 5 this isn't the case. > > I have added some code to my inputrc file to make this work in CentOS 4 as > follows: > > # Search History for previous used commands > "\M-[A":history-search-backward > "\M-[B":history-search-forward > "\M-[C":forward-char > "\M-[D":backward-char > > And this works well in CentOS 4 but I cannot get it to work in CentOS 5. > Anyone know why or what I have to change? > You might try doing: bind -P|grep history Not sure which option it is, but you can try binding each entry until you find the one that does what you're looking for.