bash use ALT-. to copy last argument

Richard Stallman - founder of the GNU Project

“I recently learned about the M-. command in Bash (use Escape followed by a full stop if you don’t have a Meta key), which copies the last argument from the previous command.”

Note: Meta key is ALT on my Ubuntu machine.

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  ____    ____ __  __  _      __   __ __
 / __ \  / __/ \ \/ / | | /| / /  / // /
/ /_/ / _\ \    \  /  | |/ |/ /  / _  / 
\____/ /___/    /_/   |__/|__/  /_//_/

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