At the risk of being called an oldie, I keep using !-notation since the early tcsh days. E.g. "!$" or !:2-3.
You can also use things like !less:* to fetch the parameters of the latest less command. I can't type alt-> because alt-shift is my keyboard language-switching combination, so I don't know how this compares with good old bang-notation. Other useful stuff: ^x^y will replace the first "x" on the previous line by "y". Use a third "^" after "y" if it contains space. It's actually a short for "!!:s/x/y/" Where !!:s comes handy is to replace globally: !!gs/x/y/ will replace ALL of the "x"'s on last line by "y"'s. Then again - you can type "!command" or "!-3" to use another history line as a basis. And one last thing, related to security - if you type a sensitive string on the command line and get it into your history, use "history -d" to delete this line. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
