# I never want to see (reverse-i-search) ever again :)

Yes, you read that right! I never want to see `(reverse-i-search)` ever again :) Or anything similar

I use `bash` shell 🐚 and I'm lazy to type out all the commands, especially commands I have typed before. Though I could use my clipboard manager [Clipy](https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy) and copy and keep the commands handy, I think it's too much work to always keep copying commands. I would rather use a search 🔍🔎🔦👀 feature to search the old commands and choose the command I want

There are more alternatives too for this, for example, there are tools 🧰🛠️⚒️ to help you create aliases for complete commands and search and choose an alias with a quick keyboard shortcut and that will run the whole command :)

What I do? I use a combination of shell history, in my case `bash` history file and `fzf`

In my macOS, I simply install `fzf` and install the key bindings that come with `fzf`. The installation has become way simpler these days. I just do a single `brew install fzf` and everything is generally setup. Previously I had to run one more command to install the keybindings

`fzf` does have documentation 📃📄 on key bindings

[https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#key-bindings-for-command-line](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#key-bindings-for-command-line)

What I did? Just `brew install fzf` in my macOS and ensured that the below line is sourced every time my `bash` starts off

```bash
[ -f ~/.fzf.bash ] && source ~/.fzf.bash
```

I put this one liner 👆in my `$HOME/.bash_profile` which is what gets sourced every time my `bash` starts off, in my case at least

And the beauty of this? It looks like this now when I do `Control + R` -

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1715076556393/2d205470-c7be-4f9d-a045-c4f6b6befbfc.png align="center")

I can do fuzzy search 🔎🔦🔍👀 too

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1715076663164/67444e31-6af6-4341-8dd8-ce4ba4224900.png align="center")

Look how it selects various commands when my search input is just `core abl`

It selects `corepack enable` command and many others too, like -

`docker pull core.harbor.domain/blah/something`

`k get crd -o name | rg coreos | xargs -I{} bash -c "kubectl get {} -o json | jq '.status.conditions[] | select(.type == \"Established\") | .status'"`

Notice how it selects part by part, in a fuzzy manner? You can also see why it selected the commands it selected - with a green highlighting/marking/**bold**ening on the letters matching the search input.

The searching happens in a split second - you won't even notice it! It's really fast 💨! I don't have numbers / benchmark tests - maybe you can find it in the `fzf` project, but they are blazingly fast as they claim :)