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by soraminazuki 14 days ago
I suppose a lot of people use less rather than cat for looking at files though.

`alt + .` is much more versatile. You can use it to cycle through and insert the last arguments of previous commands.

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Sometimes, I'm wanting to copy text from the terminal, so "cat" is a better option if it's more than one page long or you just want to eyeball a fragment that you're going to type into a command.