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#TL;DR Alt+0+.: inserts last command without the arguments
Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 with the default binding settings (i.e Emacs key bindings)
You can combine keyboard shortcuts
Let's consider the last command to be:
mv foo bar
up , Ctrl+w: last command without the last word = mv foo
Alt+0+.: first argument of last command = mv
Some useful shortcuts:
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Alt+.: insert last argument from last command (repeat to go back in history)
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Alt+number+.: insert #nth last argument from last command (repeat to go back in history)
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Alt+- , number , Alt+., zsh: Alt+-+#+.: insert #nth first argument from last command (repeat to go back in history)
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Cut commands (relative to cursor's position)
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Ctrl+w: cuts last word
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Alt+d: cuts next word
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Ctrl+k: cuts everything after
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Ctrl+u, zsh: Alt+w: cuts everything before
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zsh: Ctrl+u: cuts the entire command (In bash you can combine Ctrl+u , Ctrl+k)
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Ctrl+y: paste characters previously cut with any Cut command. In bash You can chain cut commands, and Ctrl+y will paste them all.
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Ctrl+_: undo last edit (very useful when exceeding Ctrl+w)
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Ctrl+left: move to last word
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Ctrl+right: move to next word
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home or Ctrl+a: move to start of command
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end or Ctrl+e: move to end of command
To see all shortcuts available
- bash:
bind -lp - zsh:
bindkey -L
Unfortunately there are some limitations
"words" only includes a-zA-Z characters, so any symbol character will stop word-shortcuts.
So if last argument was a url and you want to erase it with Ctrl+w it will be a pain.
E.g: curl -I --header "Connection: Keep-Alive" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38176514/re-run-previous-command-with-different-arguments
To erase that url using Ctrl+w, you'd have to repeat it 12 times.
It would be great to have similar shortcuts that only stops at the space character