Bash history behavior

[argentum2f@gmail.com]

Not sure where best to ask this question, so it's going here.

In bash I can push the up arrow to cycle through previous commands. I've found that some command line utilities - in particular 'octave' (and maybe others) have an additional feature that if I type in the first part of a command, then press the up arrow, it will cycle through previous commands that start with whatever I've typed in. So, for example I can type "for" and then press the up arrow to cycle through all the previous commands I issued starting with for. It is extremly helpful for me and I really wish bash would also behave in the same manner.

Is there a simple way to enable this feature?
If not, what would it take? If nothing else it seems like you could set the uparrow to a custom command.

[howefield]

Try this thread.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...383&p=12526445

[argentum2f@gmail.com]

Thanks so much!

The answer was in reply #5 (along with a some other useful bits):

gedit .inputrc
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward

Edit:
Why can't I mark this as 'solved'?