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#5 Command Line Tips #2

In this episode we continue the multipart series with some more of my favorite command line tips including a surprisingly little known cd argument, quickly searching the bash_history, a sudo tip, and how to temporarily start a tiny webserver so we can share files with a single command.

Uploaded on Oct 06, 2009 | 4:25 | Tags: bash cd python

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# cd to the last directory visited
$ cd -
# go to our home directory
$ cd

# CTRL+R to search through the bash_history as you type.  Enter to execute.

# execute the last command with sudo
$ sudo !!

# start a Python HTTP server with webshare
$ alias webshare='python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()"'

$ webshare

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