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 - <h4 class="subsection">32.2.5 Searching for Commands in the History</h4>
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 - <p>Readline provides commands for searching through the command history
 - for lines containing a specified string.
 - There are two search modes:  <em>incremental</em> and <em>non-incremental</em>.
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 - <p>Incremental searches begin before the user has finished typing the
 - search string.
 - As each character of the search string is typed, Readline displays
 - the next entry from the history matching the string typed so far.
 - An incremental search requires only as many characters as needed to
 - find the desired history entry.
 - To search backward in the history for a particular string, type
 - <kbd>C-r</kbd>.  Typing <kbd>C-s</kbd> searches forward through the history.
 - The characters present in the value of the <code>isearch-terminators</code> variable
 - are used to terminate an incremental search.
 - If that variable has not been assigned a value, the <tt class="key">ESC</tt> and
 - <kbd>C-J</kbd> characters will terminate an incremental search.
 - <kbd>C-g</kbd> will abort an incremental search and restore the original line.
 - When the search is terminated, the history entry containing the
 - search string becomes the current line.
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 - <p>To find other matching entries in the history list, type <kbd>C-r</kbd> or
 - <kbd>C-s</kbd> as appropriate.
 - This will search backward or forward in the history for the next
 - entry matching the search string typed so far.
 - Any other key sequence bound to a Readline command will terminate
 - the search and execute that command.
 - For instance, a <tt class="key">RET</tt> will terminate the search and accept
 - the line, thereby executing the command from the history list.
 - A movement command will terminate the search, make the last line found
 - the current line, and begin editing.
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