Bash, upon startup, will look in the file defined by the environment variable INPUTRC. On RH6.0 systems, this appears to be defined to be /etc/inputrc by default, but the bash man page says ~/.inputrc is common, so on your system it may be this way. In any case, the default /etc/inputrc looks like this:
set meta-flag on set input-meta on set convert-meta off set output-meta on "\e0d": backward-word "\e0c": forward-word "\e[h": beginning-of-line "\e[f": end-of-line "\e[1~": beginning-of-line "\e[4~": end-of-line "\e[5~": beginning-of-history "\e[6~": end-of-history "\e[3~": delete-char "\e[2~": quoted-insert
I added the following lines.
"\C-p":"ps aux | grep " "\C-f":"find . -type f -name " "\C-g":" | xargs egrep -i " "\C-l":"ls -altr" "\C-w":"who | sort | more" "\C-v":"history | sort -r -k 1 | more -c"
So, at the command line, I can get the above by executing the appropriate control sequence. For example, by hitting
ctrl-f "*.txt" ctrl-g losurs
I get the command:
find . -type f -name "*.txt" | xargs egrep -i losurs
in a whole lot less keystrokes.