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[ILUG] Shell tip: bang commands...

[ILUG] Shell tip: bang commands...

Colm Buckley colm at tuatha.org
Sun May 14 11:43:29 IST 2006


On 14 May 2006, at 02:48, Sarah Fortune wrote:

> In bash you can use Alt-. to fill in the last argument, it's nicer  
> than !$
> because you can see what it is before running the command.

And in zsh you can use <tab> to expand any history substitutions  
before execution.

	Colm (still a zsh fan after fifteen years - see http://grml.org/zsh/ 
zsh-lovers.html for lots more tips)

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Colm Buckley / colm at tuatha.org / +353 87 2469146 / www.colm.buckley.name







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