Unix & Linux Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
In trying to read in my inputrc file, I was reading https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Miscellaneous-Commands:
re-read-init-file (C-x C-r)
Read in the contents of the inputrc file, and incorporate any bindings or variable assignments found there.
Is re-read-init-file supposed to be a command I can execute? I am getting
$ re-read-init-file
-bash: re-read-init-file: command not found
I also got the same result with abort.
No, it's not a command you can type on the command line.
You can invoke it through pressing Ctrl+X followed by Ctrl+R, as the manual shows (assuming the keybindings have not been changed).
The readline functions have names so that you are able to meaningfully bind keyboard shortcuts to them. They are not commands in the sense that they are executables like man.
.inputrc you made. Restarting the shell session will alse re-read the file.
"\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward.