RE: Linux tricks I use in day to day work

[alcik]

Another sweet Bash shortcut: ALT + . it will paste the previous command last argument. Press it again to browse another previous commands arguments (it always takes only last argument but still this is useful). For example:

$ grep -B2 -A20 NullPointerException myapp.log > npe.txt
$ less <press ALT .>
$ less npe.txt 

Comments

[jamzed]

Thanks, You remind me one more ;-) If you made a typo in command you can replace character(s) and run it again using substitute feature ;-)

$ whozmi
-bash: whozmi: command not found

$ ^z^a
whoami
jamzed