From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12151 invoked by alias); 22 Jan 2015 13:40:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 19764 Received: (qmail 4955 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2015 13:40:20 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:40:16 +0100 From: Axel Beckert To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: refering to 2nd from last history parameter? Message-ID: <20150122134016.GV26664@sym.noone.org> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@zsh.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 X-Machine: sym2 x86_64 X-Editor: GNU Emacs 23.4.1 Face: 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 Organization: DeuxChevaux.org -- The =?iso-8859-1?Q?Citr?= =?iso-8859-1?B?b+tu?= 2CV Database User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Hi, On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:18:19PM +0000, zzapper wrote: > I don't think it's possible > > ls !$ last parameter of previous command > > echo a b c d e f g h > > I don't think I can grab 'g' without counting left to right Interesting question. I would have expected that using negativ numbers would work (with CSH_JUNKIE_HISTORY enabled of course): % echo !:-2 But this actually seems an abbreviation for % echo !:0-2 despite this is not documented in the man page. (I may come up with a documentation patch for that later.) It though seems consistent with tcsh which behaves the same way. Despite I never thought about it so far, I'd use such a feature if I knew it exists. Would come in handy with many rsync/scp/cp/etc. command-lines to reuse the source argument if there were a bunch of dashed options before it. I wonder what would be a good syntax for such a feature as "-n" seems already taken. Maybe something "