Comments on: Bash Tip #2

By: Ben Arwin

Ben Arwin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:25:27 +0000

Here’s some help for users on OS X who are annoyed that Alt+.(alt + period) doesn’t work. Evidently the “meta” key is mapped to Esc by default. So, Esc+period will work (as will Esc+f, Esc+b, and other emacs style shell shortcuts). Here’s a post I found that explains this a little further: http://sn.im/lvc4y

By: benarwin

benarwin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:06:05 +0000

Great tips! I learned a few things. One more “!” shortcut is you can type “!” followed by one or more letters and it will execute the most recent command in your history that began with those letters.

For example:
# telnet google.com 80 # test


# !t      (executes 'test')

# !tel    (executes 'telnet google.com 80')

# !tes (executes 'test')