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Re:Advancing in the Bash Shell by devnonymous on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @03:42AM (#12486264)
> I don't use !!, or !$, because I prefer to see what command is being executed before I press enter.

shopt -s histverify

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Re:Advancing in the Bash Shell by 0xmohit on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @03:58AM (#12486315)
histreedit is also pretty useful especially when a substitution fails.

  shopt -s histreedit
If set, and readline is being used, a user is given the opportunity to re-edit a failed history substitution.
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Re:Advancing in the Bash Shell by gpvos on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @09:31AM (#12488004)
Until you log in to a different machine where that isn't set in the .bashrc / .profile .
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