Show pageBacklinksBack to top This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== bash use ALT-. to copy last argument ====== Richard Stallman - founder of the GNU Project "I recently learned about the M-. command in Bash (use Escape followed by a full stop if you don’t have a Meta key), which copies the last argument from the previous command." Note: Meta key is ALT on my Ubuntu machine. {{tag>linux}} ~~LINKBACK~~ ~~DISCUSSION~~ blog/bash_use_alt-._to_copy_last_argument.txt Last modified: 2009/11/02 07:15by brb