How to use arguments from previous command?
I know that Esc + . gives you the last argument of the last command. But I'm interested in first argument of the last command. Is there a key binding to do so? On the same lines, is there a generic way of getting the nth argument from the last command? I know that in a bash script, you can use $0 , $1 etc., but these don't work on the commandline. Also, what about iterating through the 0th argument of previous commands, like we can do with the last argument by continuously pressing Esc + . ? Dennis Williamson Just as M-. (meta-dot or esc-dot or alt-dot) is the readline function yank-last-arg ,