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seclorum on July 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: GIT is the new FTP

!! refers to the previous command in the history. !$ refers to the last cmd-line option in the history.

obtu on July 18, 2012 [–]

I know that, the bit I want to emphasize is that it won't be the mkdir argument that is on the same line.

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