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Re: store some parameters/arguments for later use

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From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: store some parameters/arguments for later use
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:19:41 -0400
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zzapper sent me the following 0.5K:

> >> > ls x1 x2 x3
> >> save_parameters
> >> ...
> >> ...
> >> ...
> >> vi recall_parameters
>  
> What I've come up with is
> 
> spar () {
>         P="$(history -n -1|sed 's/^[^ ]* //')"
> }
> 
> and then anytime later I can say
> 
> vi $P

If you want to save a process, you can try:

   $ echo a b c
   $ P="!:*"
   $ echo $P

There's probably an alias you could come up with to ease the assignment.
!:* grabs all but the first word from the previous command.

-- 
Chris Johnson
cjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~cjohnson

References:
- store some parameters/arguments for later use
  - From: zzapper
- Re: store some parameters/arguments for later use
  - From: Fernando Vezzosi
- Re: store some parameters/arguments for later use
  - From: zzapper

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