From: zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: refering to 2nd from last history parameter?
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:34:59 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XnsA42A8A32547BDdavidrayninfocouk@80.91.229.13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAECNH1RyC2Q-5y3Ynk-F+cJvtRvFPWdvcpDOqXmrJB=uSJCbTQ@mail.gmail.com>
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote in
news:CAECNH1RyC2Q-5y3Ynk-F+cJvtRvFPWdvcpDOqXmrJB=uSJCbTQ@mail.gmail.com:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:18:19 +0000
> zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk> 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
>
> This isn't actually a question :-). What are you trying to do? Are
you
> at the shell command line trying to extract something and don't care
Peter
I realised I hadn't been clear.
echo a b c d e f g h
echo !:7
g
but it would be cuter if I could specify
echo !:$-1 ### doesnt work
but is there anyway to do this?
(I may have asked this before)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-22 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-22 12:18 zzapper
2015-01-22 12:57 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-22 13:34 ` zzapper [this message]
2015-01-23 19:59 ` Wayne Davison
2015-01-26 12:05 ` zzapper
2015-01-26 12:16 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-26 13:17 ` Axel Beckert
2015-01-26 14:32 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-01-26 21:30 ` Axel Beckert
2015-01-22 13:40 ` Axel Beckert
2015-01-22 15:52 ` ZyX
2015-01-22 16:09 ` Axel Beckert
2015-01-22 17:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-01-22 17:51 ` zzapper
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