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In reverse-i-search (Ctrl+R ) ,Any method to switch between similar commands in history

I think an example will be good to understand my question.

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scp file1 user10@192.168.10.1:/home/user1/linuxfiles/samplecode/important
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scp file1 user10@192.168.10.1:/home/user1/linuxfiles/samplecode/important/tested
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Assume that is the order of commands in history. If I am doing Ctrl+R and type scp it will show the last executed scp command ( ie the line ending with ‘tested’) .

But I want to locate the scp command ending with ‘important’. So is there any way in this reverse-i-search to view all commands starting with scp, to choose the appropriate one?

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Answer

Keep pressing CtrlR and it will traverse your history.

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