Awesome new keyboard shortcuts

A few new bash shortcuts I have recently come across that fill me with joy:

“Alt + .”: This inserts the last argument to the last command. So say you just tailed a config file and you want to vim it. You can do tail
1
thing.conf

then

1
vim

, “alt + .” and you will get:

1
vim thing.conf

. Can be very helpful once you get used to it being there!
“ctrl + r, ctrl + r”: When you do “ctrl + r” and start typing, your bash history is searched for whatever you are typing. But what if there are multiple matches, and you don’t want the first one? Press “ctrl + r” again! This is basically a “find next”. This way you can view the matches and run the one you want.