How to see command history?

Question

I recently saw an article on the internet. Using that by typing the first letter and pressing ↑ would show me the command starting with that letter.
For example let this be my command history:

sudo -s
ls
nautilus

Now if I type s and press ↑ would show me

sudo -s

How can I acheive this?

Type history in Terminal. All command history are stored in ~/.bash_history file — αғsнιη, Jun 29 '14 at 08:40
possible duplicate of Bash history search, partial + up-arrow — TuKsn, Jun 29 '14 at 08:53
Your question is How to see command history? and my answer is current for your question. change your question title first. — αғsнιη, Jun 29 '14 at 16:15
I able not able to figure out an appropriate one. Will you help me in figuring out a title for this quesion? — M.Tarun, Jun 29 '14 at 16:18
The title is the first thing potential answerers will see, and if your title is clear [like yours], they won't read the rest — αғsнιη, Jun 30 '14 at 04:47

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 29 '14 at 08:47

Two more useful things to know about this...

To execute a specific command from your history, you can just type an exclamation point followed by the number of the command as listed by history. So, to re-execute command number 510.

!510

To rerun your previous command just type two exclamation points. So when you run a command that needs super-user privileges and you forgot to do that - just give it the old “sudo bang bang” treatment:

sudo !!

Did you see the example in my question? – M.Tarun Jun 29 '14 at 08:51 — M.Tarun, Jun 29 '14 at 08:51

How to see command history?

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