On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 05:24:03PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 14/02/07, Patrick Doyle <wpdster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >In your case, where you wanted to get rid of ./mydir, I would have done: > >$ ls -d ./mydir > >$ rm -rf !$ > > This might just be the single most useful tip that I've seen on this > list in the two years that I've been subscribed. Thanks for that! If you like that, you'll love what happens when you hit ALT-period in bash -- it recalls and displays the value of last argument to the previous command. Subsequent uses of ALT-period recall the last argument to previous commands. You might also find the environment variable $_ useful. It serves the same purpose as !$, but works even if you've disabled bang-expansion.
