You need to add "This is a bashism" somewhere in the whole thing.
-----Original Message----- From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 9 March 2005 8:41 a.m. To: CLUG Subject: Tip of the day: Alt-. at the command line When using the command-line, often the last argument to the previous command is required for the next command. For example, the use of "out.pdf" in these to lines: > ps2pdf in.ps out.pdf > acroread out.pdf After typing acroread, and a space, pressing Alt and then . (written as Alt-.) will bring up the last argument of the previous command: out.pdf If the argument you actually wanted was further back in the history, then simply keep pressing Alt-. until you get to that argument. Advanced use: You can also give a numerical argument to Alt-. (indeed, any readline library command that wants one). For example, Alt-3 Alt-. gives you the 3rd argument of the previous command Alt-0 Alt-. gives you the previous command Alt-Minus 2 Alt-. gives you the 3rd (yes, 3rd) argument from the end Also, often you want to erase words or parts of a word (say, just the extension "pdf") or directories in a long pathname. Alt-backspace is good for this. Cheers, Carl.
