Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 - DEVELOPER TOOLS GUIDE, Manual

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Chapter 30. Using History Interactively 311
x
-
Abbreviates
x
-$
like
x
*
, but omits the last word.
If a word designator is supplied without an event specification, the previous command is used as the
event.
30.1.3. Modifiers
After the optional word designator, you can add a sequence of one or more of the following modifiers,
each preceded by a
:
.
h
Remove a trailing pathname component, leaving only the head.
t
Remove all leading pathname components, leaving the tail.
r
Remove a trailing suffix of the form
.
suffix
, leaving the basename.
e
Remove all but the trailing suffix.
p
Print the new command but do not execute it.
s/
old
/
new
/
Substitute
new
for the first occurrence of
old
in the event line. Any delimiter may be used in
place of
/
. The delimiter may be quoted in
old
and
new
with a single backslash. If
&
appears in
new
, it is replaced by
old
. A single backslash will quote the
&
. The final delimiter is optional if
it is the last character on the input line.
&
Repeat the previous substitution.
g
Cause changes to be applied over the entire event line. Used in conjunction with
s
, as in
gs/
old
/
new
/
, or with
&
.