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Effectively Use History Commands in Linux
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Sounds like a poor-man's
!$
to me!Alt+. can scroll up through the last few commands
$_
also works. I loveAlt+.
but sadly it doesn't work on any Mac terminal emulator I've found and, even more sadly, I am forced to use a Mac at work.I haven't tried
!$
so I'm not familiar with its function, but one nice thing aboutAlt+.
is that you're not limited to the last argument of the most recent command; instead, it allows you to scroll backwards likeCtrl+R
.Fewer keystrokes, more features, and the ability to see what you're about to do explicitly. How does that make it the poor man's option?
Seems like it's terminal-emulator-specific rather than a built-in shell feature
No, it's a shell feature. Terminal emulators don't even know what shell are running typically, and I haven't heard of them adding shell features. That would require the terminal emulator knowing you're using bash, knowing how to interrogate history etc..
From
man bash
:Neat! Other replies saying it doesn't work on their machine, I'll have to try it out in a few different environments.