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Thursday 26 May 2011

Repeat (and fix) last command

How many times have you run a command but forgot to add sudo at the beginning? How many times did you open vim instead of gvim? All that has an easy fix, instead of pressing up-left-left-left-left-left... (almost like a Konami code, isn't it?) just use

!!
.

!!
expands to the previous command, so for example
vim foo
, then
g!!
will execute "gvim foo".

Another common problem, you mistype vim for vmi (hey, it may be a common problem if you're dyslexic). Just type fc, short for fix command, to open the last command in your configured editor. Fix it (lxp, bonus points if anyone understand this :D) then write and save. The fixed command will be executed.

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