history expansion
Reuse and expand the shell history insh
,bash
,zsh
,rbash
andksh
. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/History-Interaction.
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Run the previous command as root (
!!
is replaced by the previous command):
sudo !!
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Run a command with the last argument of the previous command:
{{command}} !$
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Run a command with the first argument of the previous command:
{{command}} !^
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Run the Nth command of the history:
!{{n}}
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Run the command
n
lines back in the history:
!-{{n}}
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Run the most recent command containing
string
:
!?{{string}}?
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Run the previous command, replacing
string1
withstring2
:
^{{string1}}^{{string2}}^
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Perform a history expansion, but print the command that would be run instead of actually running it:
{{!-n}}:p
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