Marc Abramowitz » Meta dot in bash

3/19/2005

Meta dot in bash

March 19th 2005 Posted to Computers, General, UNIX, bash

“Meta dot” or Alt+. is a really useful bash shortcut key that I’ve come to appreciate lately. It brings up the last command-line argument of the last command that you used (sort of like !$ but less of a gamble) and you can hit it repeatedly to cycle through previous command-line args. Super useful. Try it.

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