Re:How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)
by tikkabhuna on Thursday April 22, 2021 @05:53AM
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And if you only have a single instance to replace, you can use ^old^new^
$ echo "hello hello hello world" hello hello hello world $ ^hello^bonjour^ echo "bonjour hello hello world" bonjour hello hello world
Re:How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)
by alex_smart on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:16AM
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I know that this expansion exists, but never use it in practice.
Why? The last command is more general, you can just drop the g from the command I wrote to only replace the first occurrence. Besides, :[g]s/old/new should already be familiar to anyone who has used vim, so that is almost like having to learn zero new things.
!-1:gs/hello/world
which runs the last command with all instances of hello replaced by world. !-1 can be any so called event designator, for instance !n to refer to any specific line number from history or !string for last command containing a particular string.
Seriously people, read the man page for bash. Your shell has so many cool features.