Shell-fu

Chris Devers cdevers at pobox.com
Wed Feb 23 17:40:56 GMT 2011


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:17 PM, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk>
 wrote:

> $ svn add lib/Hlagh/Blagh.pm
> ...
> $ svn commit
> ...
> $ vi !($^*%*$
>
> What line-noise should I type to get the last argument to the command
> two steps back in my history?  Obviously I only care about bash.
>

Is it too hard to just do

<up><up><^a><^d><^d><^d>vi<enter>

?

There's probably a Cleverer™ way to do this, but this approach works for
me.


-- 
Chris Devers


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