Bonehead Move

[Dotan Cohen]

On 14/02/07, kodis at mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov <kodis at mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 05:24:03PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 14/02/07, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >In your case, where you wanted to get rid of ./mydir, I would have done:
> > >$ ls -d ./mydir
> > >$ rm -rf !$
> >
> > This might just be the single most useful tip that I've seen on this
> > list in the two years that I've been subscribed. Thanks for that!
>
> If you like that, you'll love what happens when you hit ALT-period in
> bash -- it recalls and displays the value of last argument to the
> previous command.  Subsequent uses of ALT-period recall the last
> argument to previous commands.
>
> You might also find the environment variable $_ useful.  It serves the
> same purpose as !$, but works even if you've disabled bang-expansion.
>

That is good. I'll start googling these combination. Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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