In Windows Command Prompt, how to get the last command that started with some letters?

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Published on 2014-08-13T17:13:53Z Indexed on 2014/08/19 10:23 UTC
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Let's say I entered a bunch of commands one after another:

rm blah.txt
pwd
ls
cd ..
cd blah
pwd

If I want to get "rm blah.txt" to appear again without typing the whole thing again, I can press up 6 times.

But is there a faster way? Can filter my command history based on some text?

Intuitively, I would like to just type in r and then press up to search through my command history for only commands that started with "r".

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