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psmears	2009-12-04 , 17:02
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Originally Posted by qole

kwotski: what do you use the ^ hat for?

Another use for the ^ character (at least it most shells e.g. tcsh/bash) is for quick corrections of typos. For example, if you accidentally type:

Code:

less thisisaveryloNGfilename.txt

then, rather than either re-typing the whole line, or using the arrow keys lots of times to get to the right place, you can change the "NG" to "ng" by typing just:

Code:

^NG^ng

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