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Re:How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015) by loulouxiv on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:41PM (#26909004)
Yes I was also impressed when I found out about this one. However I use it far less frequently than ALT-. . ALT-# is also useful in the frequent cases where I am constructing a complicated commmand but I have to run another command before the current one.

Also keep in mind that most interactive command-line tools are built upon readline and can understand all those bindings (think python REPL, mysql/psql...)

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Re:How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015) by alex_smart on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:27PM (#26909723)
>However I use it far less frequently than ALT-.

Haha of course. I use it so frequently I can't imagine how anyone uses their shell without it.

>can understand all those bindings

I knew that but just being reminded helped me realize that C-o is probably going to be useful in the REPL as well. Thanks.

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