Gio Lodi • 8/5/2015

How to reuse the last parameter in a terminal command

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This technical article details two Bash shell tricks for reusing the last argument from a previous command: the $_ variable and the !$ history expansion. It provides practical examples, such as using them with Git commands, and discusses their utility in scripting and with tools like xargs to improve command-line efficiency.

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