[kwlug-disc] my new favourite command

John Van Ostrand john at netdirect.ca
Fri Dec 3 09:42:34 EST 2010


----- Original Message -----
> On a whim, I said: this looks like regular expressions, so I tried
> !^ and it did what I expect: first token:
> 
> $ echo a b
> a b
> 
> $echo !^
> echo a
> a

Or you could check out http://www.kwlug.org/node/766 for a more complete list.

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