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Reuse arguments from last command

Posted on 22 Mar, 2022

Get all of the arguments:

<command> !*

Get only the last argument:

<command> !$

Get nth arguments

If you want a single argument from a list of arguments from the previous command, you can use !!:
Example:
ls foo/ bar/ baz/
ls !:2 # Gives the results of ls bar/
ls foo/ bar/ baz/
ls !:1 # Gives the results of ls foo/
Index of shortcuts:
!^ first argument
!$ last argument
!* all arguments
!:2 second argument
!:2-3 second to third arguments
!:2-$ second to last arguments
!:2* second to last arguments
!:2- second to next to last arguments
!:0 the command
!! repeat the previous line

Keyboard shortcuts

<command> Esc.: To get last argument of previous command