The Definitive Guide to Bash Command Line History

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Amos Shapira Permalink
June 14, 2008, 13:38

Answer to Gabriel about replacing more than one occurrence: you can use the !:s (the "^" is actually mentioned in the manual as a simplified version of "!:s"):

$ echo a b b b c
a b b b c
$ !:gs/b/d/
echo a d d d c
a d d d c

It's all in "man bash", BTW.

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