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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: Some minor bash nits/wouldlikes
Message-ID: <200@titania.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Sep 89 18:47:07 GMT
References: <197@titania.warwick.ac.uk> <8909021449.AA14827@aurel.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
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In article <8909021449.AA14827@aurel.caltech.edu> bfox@aurel.caltech.edu writes:
|   >	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.
|
|How about:
|
|bash$ hairy-function argument
|bash$ ^ar^another-ar^ &

Fine, unless `hairy-function' was `ar xov /var/tmp/libarc.a' ... You may need
to type a lot to ensure uniqueness.  I know that in bash you can just use ^P
and edit it, but sometimes the ^...^... form is more convenient, especially if
it is a command which takes a fair time to complete, so that you can type this
in while you're waiting.

Rob
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