On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 9:46 AM, SternData <subscribed-lists@sterndata.com> wrote:
Years ago, I used a tool called CED and PCED on DOS systems.  I could
type in "abc" and press an up-arrow and it would walk back through my
stack of DOS commands showing only those with "abc" in them.

There's *got* to be a similar tool for bash, but my google-fu is weak today.

$ history | grep "abc"

But you will have different histories per virtual terminal I think...

Richard