[ale] guide to ! and $

Ken Nagorski kenn at pcintelligent.com
Thu Sep 21 10:31:35 EDT 2000


There is no doubt that if you really wanna get into it. Get O'Riellys
book on bash...However my favorite is !$, it's the last aurg passed to the
previuos command, lets say I do ping someserver.com, I could then
say. telnet !$

Ken

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Gary Maltzen wrote:

> You've explored the obvious ('man bash'), right?
> 
> Cade asked:
> > Does anybody know of a good web site to explain the functions of ! and $
> > on the command line.  I know a few tricks like !! and $_ but i don't know
> > what I don't know.  Any sugestions?  Trying to search on google does not
> > help(hard to search for non letters). 
> 
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