Equivalent of bash !! that ignores first word

Question

In bash, I frequently do

touch whatever.py
vim whatever.py

I want something like

touch whatever.py
vim !!

So how do I do that with a bash ! directive that eats the first word?

You don't need to use touch since vim will create the file if it doesn't exist (after you :w of course).
You're right, bad example. In real life I am actually doing "touchmod", which is a personal alias that touches and then chmods u+x.

Ash · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-06 06:13:48Z

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!* will give you the everything in the previous command except the command itself.

!$ will give you the last parameter for the previous command.

Both should work in your example (a command with a single parameter).

answered Jan 6 '12 at 6:13

Ash
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