[ale] i hate csh

[greg at turnstep.com (Greg Sabino Mullane)]

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>        host% ^pe^ep
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> I don't think bash does that. Speaking of which, I also miss the
> "r" command in ksh for repeating a command in your history ...

Bash does do the caret substitution trick. It is also great at repeating 
commands from your history. Just type "!!" to repeat your last command, 
"!234" to repeat command number 234, or (my favorite) "!string" to repeat 
the last command that started with "string." Say you run a "grep" command 
and then, hours of coding later, you decide you want to run that command 
again. Just type "!gr" and bash runs the last command that started with 
the letters "gr" (in this case, "grep whatever"). Very nice.

There is a lot more it does too, but basically anything the the lesser 
shells :) can do, bash can do, and usually improves upon it if possible. 
I've been using bash a long time but I still get surprised on occasion as 
I ask myself "is there a way to do that in bash" and sure enough, there 
usually is.

Greg Sabino Mullane  <greg at turnstep.com>
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