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occurred Jul 17, 2013 at 18:32

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edited Jul 17, 2013 at 18:26

There are times when I want to take the previous command's parameters and apply them to the current command.

Here is an example

$ locatecat foo.txt
~/foo.txt
$ vim ~/foo.txt

I'd like to find a shortcut to not have to type out ~/foovim foo.txt

There are times when I want to take the previous command's parameters and apply them to the current command.

Here is an example

$ locate foo.txt
~/foo.txt
$ vim ~/foo.txt

I'd like to find a shortcut to not have to type out ~/foo.txt

There are times when I want to take the previous command's parameters and apply them to the current command.

Here is an example

$ cat foo.txt
$ vim foo.txt

I'd like to find a shortcut to not have to type out vim foo.txt

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asked Jul 17, 2013 at 18:11

pass previous command's arguments to current command

There are times when I want to take the previous command's parameters and apply them to the current command.

Here is an example

$ locate foo.txt
~/foo.txt
$ vim ~/foo.txt

I'd like to find a shortcut to not have to type out ~/foo.txt

linux bash parameters

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