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Overloading the Machine

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Notes

http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/10/11/zero-to-z-shell-learn-what-all-the-fuss-is-about-with-z-shell/

History

!$ uses the last argument on the previous command line.

!! repeats the last command.

!l repeats the last command that starts with l.

!32 runs command #32 from the history.

Keybindings

bindkey -L shows the list of keybindings.

zle -la shows the list of commands that can be bound.

Process substitution

ls =top will show the full path to the top binary.

Prompts

prompt -l shows available prompt profiles.

Files and directories

setop autocd lets you change directories without typing cd first.

cd ~- changes to the previous directory.

~2 goes to the second directory in the directory stack.

~-0 goes to the final directory in the directory stack.

touch {1...10}.txt creates 10 test files.

We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant. [...] I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls. Everyone told him, "You ride the bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean and tough like a bad rib-eye and he fought the bull. And then he fought me. And when we finished there were no winners, just men doing what men must do. [...] "Stop the car," the girl said. There was a look of terrible sadness in her eyes. She knew about the woman of the tollway. I knew not how. I started to speak, but she raised an arm and spoke with a quiet and peace I will never forget. "I do not ask for whom's the tollway belle," she said, "the tollway belle's for thee." The next morning our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie. Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey onto my granola and faced a new day.

-- Peter Applebome, International Imitation Hemingway Competition