# Dan Moore - Use Your Shell’s History (Highlights)

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**Authors**:: [[Dan Moore]]
**Full Title**:: Use Your Shell’s History
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**URL**:: [letterstoanewdeveloper.com](https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2021/02/01/use-your-shells-history/)
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**Highlighted**:: [[2021-03-03]]
**Created**:: [[2022-09-26]]
## Highlights
- So if I type !524 the command vi text.adoc will be run.
- !* expands to everything except the first argument in the previous line
- !$ refers to the last argument of the command