And if you don't want the last argument but the nth one, press Alt-n before Alt-. (n starts at 0, so Alt-0 Alt-. in the above situation would get you "mkdir").

And if you don't want the last argument but the nth one, press Alt-n before Alt-. (n starts at 0, so Alt-0 Alt-. in the above situation would get you "mkdir"). There are several other ways to do this sort of thing too. See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4009412/how-to-use-arguments-from-previous-command https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4009412/how-to-use-argum...