Insert the last argument of the previous terminal command

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today I learned that you can use !$ in bash to use the last argument of the previous command.

The simplest example is:

mkdir /some/long/path
cd !$

You can do something similar in powershell by using a PSReadline binding:

Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Chord "Alt+." -Function YankLastArg

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Run a bash script from Powershell

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

You can execute a bash script from Powershell on Windows by typing bash if you’ve enabled WSL. For example bash ./new-til.sh. Some caveats though:

Make sure you use / instead of \ in the file path
Make sure the bash script was saved with unix line-endings

You can also make a wrapper script for scripts you regularly execute like new-til.ps1:

bash ./new-til.sh $args

If you don’t or can’t enable WSL, you can use sh.exe that’s optionally installed with Git for Windows. For example sh ./new-til.sh

See this StackOverflow post for more caveats/solutions.

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Insert the last argument of the previous terminal command

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