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Maybe there is a tool that does that? Maybe I'm doing this all wrong and there is a different way I should browse?

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[–] valar@lemmy.ca 109 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

To add,

!$ gets replaced with the last word from the previous command line

!! Repeats the most recent command

!-N Repeats the Nth previous command

!string Repeats the most recent command that began with 'string'

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I just learned more about Linux than I did from my whole IT degree.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You learned more about shells than you knew. This stuff works on BSD and some UNIX systems too, you know

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Most POSIX-compliant systems?

[–] bluelabel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I learned Ubuntu in uni decades ago, and I didn't know those commands exist.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If !$ isn’t pronounced “ba-ching!” I’m quitting Linux

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Better than "bang-ching" which sounds racist to me. lol

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago

Great, now omarchy is going to adopt it

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

the (ng) is silent when used in compound punctuation in ba(ng)

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

okay, but now THAT sounds racist for whole OTHER reasons...... ;-)

it probably is, that professor who taught me it was belgian

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

!! is the goat when you needed to run the last command using sudo

[–] Hal@piefed.nz 10 points 2 days ago

Hot damn, and here's me thinking thefuck was the way to do this.

[–] Exec@pawb.social 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

!!:n where n is the nth word after the command in your last line

cp file1 file2
nano !!:2

Here nano opens file2.

[–] valar@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago
[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

... How have I used Linux for two decades and not run into this once. Amazing stuff

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 9 points 2 days ago

I've never come across this before, and I am completely unsurprised it exists.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

I'm loving this

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Huh - TIL about !-N

Thanks 🙏