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There's more! Well, it's more a bash thing than a cd thing.. in bash the variable
$_
refers to the last argument to the previous command. So you can do the following:It's handy for a whole host of things, like piping/touching then opening a file, chown then chmod, etc.
On many terminal emulators you can also use Alt-. to search through your history of previous arguments, so
mkdir foo
followed bycd [Alt-.]
will populate your command line withcd foo
for example. If you have some other command in between you can just hit Alt-. repeatedlyOr ESC followed by "." Repeating it works too.
You are an absolute king. Never again will I cp a file to a far off land, and then retype the entire path a second time to open it. Thank you!
This is amazing ♥️
That's incredible, I never knew that. Thank you!