Re: HOWTO remove a previous wildcard file list?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Mark Hurley <debian4tux@telocity.com> wrote:
>Anyone know of a method to easily solve this ...
>
>I *sometimes* list the files before deleting them:
>
>	ls A*.pdf
>
>Ensuring I have only listed the ones I wish to delete, I then enter:
>
>	rm A*.pdf
>
>Great, but anyone know of an easier why than the following?

You can repeat the last argument of the previous command using Meta-.
(on some terminals Alt-. works to type that, although Escape-. works
pretty much everywhere).

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]