Bash – How to put the last zsh command in history into a clipboard

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It often happens to me, that I just used a command and I need to copy/paste it either to a different terminal window/IM or whatever.

On a Mac, I can use the pbcopy command to get something in clipboard, but I'm not sure how should I get to the command. What I've came up is

history | tail -n 1 | perl -ple 's/\d+\s+//' | pbcopy

which works, but it doesn't really seem like clean solution. Is there a better way to get to the last command? I'm using zsh, but I guess if there's a solution for bash it will work in zsh too.

Best Answer

As a one-off for the last command:

echo !! | pbcopy

will put exactly the last command into the clipboard.

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Windows – Has anyone found a (eg bash) shell terminal for Windows as good as the OS X one

Have you tried console2?

It lets you use cmd, bash, or any program as your shell, and allows resizing in any direction.

You can make it default to Git Bash by going to Edit->Settings, then pasting this in the Shell field:

"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i"

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Finally, Git ships with rxvt. You could create a new Windows shortcut with the Target field set to:

"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\rxvt.exe" -e /bin/sh --login -i

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