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!$ is not merely the last word, but the last argument - particularly handy when it's a long path. Also love the way zsh expands these with a single tab press -

• sethrin 9y ago
  That's technically incorrect. !$ is a shortcut for !!:$, which is the last word of the previous command in history. A filename is treated as a single word, as you say. This is however distinct from the last argument, which is accessible with $_ . As an example: $ echo 'example' > file.txt Here !$ would return the filename, and $_ would return 'example', which was the last argument to echo.
  • lozf 9y ago
    wow ok, neat... gonna have to spend some time with your book, Thanks!