Help & History

#039 0:11 Part of the Rysh video series

Forget a command? Rysh tells you. ##help lists everything, ##history recalls what you typed.

Help & History — 0:11 walkthrough

What you'll see

Launch rysh and run a couple of shell commands (ls -la, pwd) to build history.
Double-Escape into rysh mode (prompt becomes ##).
Run ##help to list every built-in system command.
Run ##history (alias ##h) to show the current input mode's command history.

rysh
ls -la
pwd
##help
##history

EnterEscape

0:00Forget a command? Rysh tells you. ##help lists everything, ##history recalls what you typed.

0:03Launch rysh and run a couple of shell commands to build up some history.

0:07Every command you run is remembered, per input mode.

0:14Double-press Escape twice to reach rysh mode -- the prompt becomes a double-hash, ready for system commands.

0:20Type ##help to list every system command Rysh understands -- tabs, panes, lanes, sharing, snapshots, and more.

0:28Type ##history -- or just ##h -- to see the command history for the current input mode. Nothing gets lost.

0:37Help and history: your two-command safety net inside any pane.

Key takeaway

##help and ##history are your in-pane reference and recall for every system command.