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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.

And I think one way or perhaps two; it doesn’t matter // as long as one can slip by, and easily // into the questioning but not miasmal dark. // Look, here is a stance--- // shall you cover it, cape it? I // don’t care he said, going down all those stairs // makes a boy of you... //

-- John Ashbery, from "From Estuaries, from Casinos" (Hotel Lautréamont 1992)