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When first stumbling my way around the shell, after learning about tab completion I discovered the magic wizardry that is command reverse/history lookup (cntrl-r start typing command ... see last command you entered that matches)

Yep, very handy. After finding a match, you can hit C-r again to find earlier matches.

I think you can keep hitting the up arrow to find earlier matches too

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