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Konsole like terminal for Gnome

I would like to switch from Kubuntu to Ubuntu but so far I couldn't find a terminal emulator for Gnome which had history support like Konsole does. In Konsole you can set the history to be unlimited ...
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How do I cut and paste terminal I/O without using the mouse?

I want to search and cut text from command output in a terminal so I can use it in subsequent command line invocations or just in an editor session. Is there any way to easily run a regular ...
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How to search the contents in a directory from terminal while you're in the middle of writing a command?

I'm trying to become comfortable with the terminal by using it as much as I can. The aspect of my computer usage where I lose most time using command line instead of the gui is when I try to find a ...
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Is there a way to grep the gnome-terminals history?

Is the terminals output (i.e. not commands) history hiding somewhere that lets me do something like.. grep "foo foo \d{5}" ~/.terminal I'm aware I can simply pipe stuff to grep, or save it to a ...
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Search function in the terminal?

I have written a program that outputs long text to the terminal. I am looking for certain words in the text to see if I have done it right. But simply reading the text is impossible. Is there any ...