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On 4/7/25 10:05 PM, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc, Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On 06 Apr 2025 08:40:54 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>>> A lot of time I run cat to find some information in a file. And when the
>>> file is bigger than expected, I'll just grep its output. Of course,
>>> it's better to directly grep the file, but it's easier and faster to add
>>> a grep at the end of the previous command than to either write directly
>>> the right command or to go at the beginning of the line to remove the
>>> cat and put grep instead. Mostly when the name of the file is long in a
>>> far remote directory.
>> You do have command-line editing enabled, right? You just press the HOME
>> key (or CTRL/A) to go to the start of the line.
> 
> Very presumptious to assume emacs style line editing, isn't it?
> 
> To go back in history, I type <ESC>k and then I'm at the start of the
> line of the most recent command. On the current line I'd type <ESC>^
> but <ESC><HOME> would work.
> 
> But really, I don't think it is proper to care about inefficent use of
> commands at the command line. Go ahead and judge in a script or
> documentation (or an example posted to Usenet), but what people do in
> the privacy of their own shell is their business.

   Just use nano ....