Re: editing the bash command line

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[quoted lines by A. R. Vener on April 3, 2003, at 15:32]

>In ksh I can press the escape key  and select
>a previous command line to edit and execute using the +, - and v keys.
>
>I now have to access a system that only has bash and
>this procedure doesn't work in bash.  Can someone familiar
>with the bash version of command line editing help me out here?

Use the up/down arrow keys to pick the command, and press return to execute it.  
You can edit a command line with the left/right arrow keys and basic
Emacs-style control characters.

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