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Learn something new every day. What is the ^ representing in this case?

• kjellsbells 2y ago
  Caret is a word designator in bash's history scheme. Here it acts as a way to mark the thing with the thing being replaced. There's a more detailed explanation in [1] and a quick read in [2]. Essentially bash let's you do manipulation and re-execution of commands from your history and one of the manipulations is via word substitution. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Word-Designators.html https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Word-Desi... [2] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/10/21/shell-replace-word/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/10/21/shell-replace-word...