How to use the $_ positional parameter in the fish shell?

Question

In Bash, the positional parameter $_ holds the last argument in the previous command:

$ /home/joe> some-script foo bar
$ /home/joe> cd $_
$ /home/joe/bar>

The positional parameter $_ does not seem to work in the fish shell.

Is there some way in the fish shell using which I can get the last argument in the previous command? This can be useful in cases where that argument is a really long path, which can be painful to type again.

For some people, fizsh might be an alternative. – Tarrasch May 27 '13 at 05:18 — Tarrasch, May 27 '13 at 05:18

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '13 at 18:13

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fish uses $_ for the currently running program: http://fishshell.com/docs/current/index.html#title

To get the last arg of the last command, use Alt+Up

answered Nov 20 '13 at 18:13

glenn jackman

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Alt+Up is gobbled up the GNOME Terminal I'm using. Is it possible to remap this to some other keyboard shortcut? – Ashwin Nanjappa Nov 21 '13 at 02:50
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Yes. For example, to bind "alt+." to the same thing: `bind \e. history-token-search-forward` -- see "help bind" – glenn jackman Nov 21 '13 at 16:57

How to use the $_ positional parameter in the fish shell?

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