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Post Closed as "Duplicate" by Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, muru, don_crissti, Jeff Schaller♦, Stéphane Chazelas bash

occurred Dec 16, 2018 at 15:41

Fixed grammatical error in title

edit approved Dec 16, 2018 at 0:00

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When running a command on a file, is there anywayany way to reference the file without typing the entire name?

asked Dec 15, 2018 at 16:29

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When running a command on a file, is there anyway to reference the file without typing the entire name?

For example:

tar xvf test.tar.gz ; rm test.tar.gz

Is there a faster way to reference the file name on the second execution?

I was thinking something like this (which is invalid):

tar xvf test.tar.gz ; rm $1

Anything possible?

I'm fully aware of wildcards.