There are multiple ways to get to the past history in the Mac Terminal application.
The easiest and quickest way to get to recent history is by pressing the up ↑ and the down ↓ arrow keys on your keyboard.
![Mac Terminal History Navigation using Up or Down Arrows Mac Terminal History Navigation using Up or Down Arrows](https://code2care.org/macos/mac-terminal-find-command-history/images/Mac Terminal History Navigation using Up or Down Arrows.gif)
But if you want to see a list of all the recent commands that you have executed on the Terminal, then you have to make use of the history command.
history
![Mac History Command Example Mac History Command Example](https://code2care.org/macos/mac-terminal-find-command-history/images/Mac History Command Example.gif)
As you can see, you can pipe the history command with grep to filter out the specific command that you are looking for.
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