[ILUG] Shell tip: bang commands...

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 02:48:08 +0100
  | From: Sarah Fortune <fortunes at tcd.ie>
  |[ ... ]
  | > Getting stuff from the last command:
  | >     Full line:     % !!            becomes:   % vi foo.c bar.c
  | >     Last arg :     % svn ci !$     becomes:   % svn ci bar.c
  | 
  | 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.

 is there any way to turn this <Alt> and <Meta>
 garbage off?  I can get rid of some of the
 horrible things interactive bash(1) does with
 (from my `$HOME/.bashrc'):

  set +H                  # Disable csh(1)-style `!' history expansion
  shopt -u hostcomplete   # Disable `... at hostame' completion

 but the <Alt>/<Meta> nonsense drives me up the
 fscking wall!  (I'm an _original_ Bourne shell
 person from way back, and only switched first
 to Korn ksh(1), and then GNU bash(1), when they
 got Rob Pike's “cd spelling correction” — albeit
 neither implemented it quite properly ....  ;-(  ).

 ( for those who are confused, `!' csh(1)-stylwe
  stuff includes `!!' and `!$', and probably much
  of the other "features" Kevin highlighted. )

cheers!
	-blf-
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