One key I love in Bash and Zsh is meta-dot (or alt-period or escape-period). It is a bit like up arrow, but rather than replacing the curren line, it inserts the last word of the previous line. Pressing it multiple times cycles through multiple preceding lines.
For example, you just ran
somecommand > longfilename
and want to open the resulting file in vi, you can type
vi meta-dot
and longfilename will be inserted on your command line after vi.
Depends on your keyboard layout; most likely your meta key is "alt", so typing a period while holding down the alt key would do the trick. You can also type the escape key, followed by a period.
Whether you are in bash or zsh, you can use the ! operator quite flexible:
If we take: echo a b c d as an example
!$ # the last argument: d
!:* # all the arguments: a b c d (can be shorten !*)
!:1 # the first argument: a (same as !^)
!:1-3 # arguments from first to third: a b c
!:2-$ # arguments from the second to the last one: b c d
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One key I love in Bash and Zsh is meta-dot (or alt-period or escape-period). It is a bit like up arrow, but rather than replacing the curren line, it inserts the last word of the previous line. Pressing it multiple times cycles through multiple preceding lines.
For example, you just ran
somecommand > longfilename
and want to open the resulting file in vi, you can type
vi meta-dot
and
longfilenamewill be inserted on your command line after vi.Wow, nice to know that, how do you type meta-dot? just literal?
Depends on your keyboard layout; most likely your meta key is "alt", so typing a period while holding down the alt key would do the trick. You can also type the escape key, followed by a period.
Whether you are in bash or zsh, you can use the
!operator quite flexible:If we take:
echo a b c das an example