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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: Some minor bash nits/wouldlikes
Message-ID: <197@titania.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Sep 89 12:45:18 GMT
References: <8909010622.AA04478@baby.bby.oz> <8909011533.AA11301@aurel.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
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In article <8909011533.AA11301@aurel.caltech.edu> bfox@aurel.caltech.edu writes:
>THe ampersand is replaced by the matched text?  What if you are just adding
>an ampersand, which seems to me to be a common case:
>
>	bash$ hairy-function argument
>	bash$ !!:s/argument/another-argument &	<- user wants to background this job.

	bash$ !!:s/argument/another-argument/ &
or
	bash$ !!:s/argument/another-argument \&
or even
	bash$ !!:s/argument/another-&/ &
:-)

This is very useful sometimes for small additions to long replacements.

Rob
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