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olejorgenb on Jan 12, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: CLI user experience case study

I've never understood how people manage to use ! in a useful way. Primarily I think because if you get anything wrong, repeating the command does something completely different. But maybe I'm not fully familiar with all the functionality because I don't understand why sub commands would make a difference?

gumby on Jan 13, 2024 | [–]

I answered a similar question above; here’s the link to my comment, with examples: https://hackertimes.com/item?id=38975420

olejorgenb on Jan 12, 2024 | [–]

I guess it's because !TEXT does a prefix search for TEXT in the history and TEXT can't contain spaces

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