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Pressing ESC and then _ will insert the last argument of the last line. Repeat to go up in the history. If you go through the command history and press CTRL-o

Pressing ESC and then _ will insert the last argument of the last line. Repeat to go up in the history. If you go through the command history and press CTRL-o on a line it will be executed and the command on the commandline will be replaced by the next line in the history.

oinksoft 13y ago
In Bash, you also can use the $_ variable which is the last argument of the previous command: $ stat /tmp/foobar File: `/tmp/foobar' Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 ... $ rm -v $_ removed `/tmp/foobar'
- hk__2 13y ago
  You can also use `!$`.
  - yawboakye 13y ago
    !$ runs the last command. it's bad if the last command is of the form command arg... because it'd run command without every other argument passed in the command line
philsnow 13y ago
Also M-. (meta-period). Keep banging on M-. to pull in the last argument of preceding commands. With a numeric prefix argument N, it grabs the Nth-from-the-end argument of the previous command, so M-3 M-. grabs the 3rd-from-last argument from the previous command.