Yes, in bash, you can "fc -s ABC=BCD grep".  The substitutions have to come
before the command.  It is common to have
alias r='fc -s'
in your .profile


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Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 5:04 PM
Subject: POSIX Shell questions


> 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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