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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