[Haifux] [HAIFUX LECTURE] Command-line utilities: Tips and tricks (part II) -- Eli Billauer

[Daniel Shahaf]

Amos Shapira wrote on Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 08:46:02 +1000:
> And the list goes on and on.

Some of the odd corners of shell syntax are quite useful in interactive
usage.  For example:

% (){ foo $1 bar } 24
to run a command several times (recalling it from history) and change
some parameter around the middle of the command line without having to
scroll to it every time.

% grep $smtp_id *(om[1,5])
to grep the 5 most recent log files.

I suppose bash has its own syntax for that but I don't know what it is.

Daniel
(naturally, I don't use these in scripts #!ed to plain sh)