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Hi,

Along with other suggestion if you have the need to repeat entries then why not setup a .bashrc & .bash_profile for your user with aliases;

Code:

sample .bash_profile;



 ~$ cat .bash_profile

 # .bash_profile

 #08-30-06 12:21

 #

 # Source .bashrc

 if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then

         . ~/.bashrc

 fi

Code:

 sample .bashrc;

 :~$ cat .bashrc

  

 #.bashrc

 #08-30-06 12:20  

 

 # Add bin to path

  

 export PATH="$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:$HOME/bin"

 

#export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin"

 

# Dynamic resizing

 shopt -s checkwinsize

 

 # Custom prompt

 #PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

 

#08-29-06 11:40

 

 if [ `id -un` = root ]; then

   PS1='\[\033[1;31m\]\h:\w\$\[\033[0m\] '

  else

   PS1='\[\033[1;32m\]\h:\w\$\[\033[0m\] '

 fi

 #

 # Add color

 eval `dircolors -b`

  

 # User defined aliases

 alias cls='clear'

 alias clls='clear; ls'

 alias ll='ls -l'

 alias lsa='ls -A'

 alias lsg='ls | grep'

 alias lsp='ls -1 /var/log/packages/ > package-list'

 alias na='nano'

 alias web='links -g -download-dir ~/ www.google.com'

  

 #08-29-06 11:50



 #To clean up and cover your tracks once you log off

 #Depending on your version of BASH, you might have to use

 # the other form of this command

   trap "rm -f ~$LOGNAME/.bash_history" 0

 

#The older KSH-style form

 #  trap 0 rm -f ~$LOGNAME/.bash_history

The .bashrc is very useful!

Do not forget about 'history';

Quote:

excerpt 'man history';
NAME
history - GNU History Library

COPYRIGHT
The GNU History Library is Copyright (C) 1989-2002 by the Free Software Foundation,
Inc.

DESCRIPTION
Many programs read input from the user a line at a time. The GNU History library
is able to keep track of those lines, associate arbitrary data with each line, and
utilize information from previous lines in composing new ones.

HISTORY EXPANSION
The history library supports a history expansion feature that is identical to the
history expansion in bash. This section describes what syntax features are avail-
able.

History expansions introduce words from the history list into the input stream,
making it easy to repeat commands, insert the arguments to a previous command into
the current input line, or fix errors in previous commands quickly.

History expansion is usually performed immediately after a complete line is read.
It takes place in two parts. The first is to determine which line from the history
list to use during substitution. The second is to select portions of that line for
inclusion into the current one. The line selected from the history is the event,
and the portions of that line that are acted upon are words. Various modifiers are
available to manipulate the selected words. The line is broken into words in the
same fashion as bash does when reading input, so that several words that would oth-
erwise be separated are considered one word when surrounded by quotes (see the
description of history_tokenize() below). History expansions are introduced by the
appearance of the history expansion character, which is ! by default. Only back-
slash (\) and single quotes can quote the history expansion character.
Event Designators
An event designator is a reference to a command line entry in the history list.

! Start a history substitution, except when followed by a blank, newline, = or
(.
!n Refer to command line n.
!-n Refer to the current command line minus n.
!! Refer to the previous command. This is a synonym for `!-1'.
!string
Refer to the most recent command starting with string.
!?string[?]
Refer to the most recent command containing string. The trailing ? may be
omitted if string is followed immediately by a newline.
^string1^string2^
Quick substitution. Repeat the last command, replacing string1 with
string2. Equivalent to ``!!:s/string1/string2/'' (see Modifiers below).
!# The entire command line typed so far.

Just a few links to aid you to gaining some understanding;
  1 Linux Documentation Project 
2 Rute Tutorial & Exposition 
3 Linux Command Guide  
4 Bash Beginners Guide 
5 Bash Reference Manual 
6 Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide 
7 Linux Newbie Admin Guide 
8 LinuxSelfHelp 
9 Utimate Linux Newbie Guide

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