From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 7:21:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-236.knology.net [24.214.76.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79E137B71B for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 07:21:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f2KFIik87210; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:18:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:18:43 -0600 From: David Kelly To: Christopher Leigh Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uhm. why isn't there a vigr for freebsd? Message-ID: <20010320091843.A87158@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <200103200128.f2K1SCe99911@grumpy.dyndns.org> <002c01c0b100$42aca160$1885a7d8@king1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <002c01c0b100$42aca160$1885a7d8@king1>; from clcont@gmx.net on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:40:22PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:40:22PM -0600, Christopher Leigh wrote: > uhm, i know what alias does, but... what does ls -lt !* do? i read the > bash man page. uhm, that was a few months ago. and i never really > figured out what ! did. i was sorta kinda thinking that it was to insert > the last command, but i'm probably wrong. still haven't booted into a > *nix os. but. thank you anyway. :) As shown it was in csh/tcsh syntax so the ! escaped the * which expands to the command line arguments used when invoking the alias. As in % lslth /usr/src which expands to: % ls -lt /usr/src | tail Or plain "lslth" expands to % ls -lt | tail And the -lt specifies long list format sorted by modification time. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message