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Fixing typos in hints.md
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- **CTRL-a**: Go to the beginning of the line
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- **CTRL-e**: Go to the end of the line
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- **CTRL-l**: Clear the terminal
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- **TAB**: Auto-complete (i.e. start write a command or file name and then press TAB to auto-complete, if possible)
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- **TAB**: Auto-complete (i.e. start write a command or file name and then press TAB to auto-complete as far as possible
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- **ARROW-UP**: Pressing the arrow-up key repeatedly will let you cycle through recent commands
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- **CTRL-r**: you will get a prompt to write text to search in the list of recent commands. The list is saved in <code>.bash_history</code> in your $HOME. On some systems it might be called <code>.bash.history</code>
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## Misc
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- Type ``clear`` to clear the terminal
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- Type ``history'`` to see a list of the recent commands used in the terminal
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- Type ``history`` to see a list of the recent commands used in the terminal
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- You can change the number of saved commands by setting the environment variable HISTSIZE in your <code>.bashrc</code> file in your home directory.
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- Example: Open <code>.bashrc</code> with <code>nano</code>. Somewhere (at the end for instance) add: <code>export HISTSIZE=NUMBER"</code> where <code>NUMBER</code> is the number of commands to save, for instance 500.
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- Example: Open <code>.bashrc</code> with <code>nano</code>. Somewhere (at the end for instance) add: <code>export HISTSIZE=NUMBER</code> where <code>NUMBER</code> is the number of commands to save, for instance 500.
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