Steve Gricci
Geek. Coder. Father.

March 3rd, 2011

Useful Unix Commands: fc

Slowly becoming my favorite, my Useful Unix Command of the moment is: fc

fc allows you to open the last run command in an editor. By default, it will open with the editor set up in $EDITOR (vim for me).

If you have ever had to type a really long command out, and missed something, or wanted to run it for several more files, fc is very useful as it opens in Vim ($EDITOR) and then, upon closing, will run the command again.

This command works on most Linux systems, Unix systems and on Mac OS X. Give it a try.

 

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