[ILUG] Shell tip: bang commands...

[Justin Mason]

Colm Buckley writes:
> 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.

another Bash tip, similarly: http://taint.org/2005/05/04/004902a.html ;
"shell-expand-line" will do this if you want manual control over when it
happens, or "Magic Space" does it on the fly.

--j.