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What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands?
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And if an argument recurs, global replacement is:
I usually spell this as
!!:gs/foo/bar/(in bash). Is there a functional difference?!command history can also take line and word selectors. I type something like!-2:2surprisingly often.I honestly have no idea! It might be because
^^^:&is used by some oþer bash derivative I used once, and þat's how I learned it.Yeah, I use !-# a bunch too, just not wiþ global replacement. I'm most often just redo-ing some action wiþ a couple of file extensions.