I have a couple of questions of my own.

The POSIX shell lets me repeat a particular command using r. So, for
instance, if I know that I want to repeat my last grep, but anything in the
command line from ABC to BCD, I can r grep ABC=BCD. Is there an equivalent
in Linux?

The second question would be best solved in perl, but I can take a shell
solution. I have a somewhat variable list of files, *XYZ.txt. I do not want
any extension on these files (adding an extension seems easy enough). Can
they be renamed copied to a basename with a single command? I'm looking for
something short of some clever scripting which would build a list of names,
parse each to derive the basename without the extension, and build a cp or
mv command, although if that's what it takes, then I'm stuck with that.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

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