Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
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Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Oop. Sorry, I wasn't clear on the '.': that repeats the last command you issued that modified something. That is, if you'd done 2dd to delete two lines, hitting '.' would delete a further two lines. If you try to use it to repeat a search, bad things can happen (depending on what modifying-actions might be in you action-history).
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Oop. Sorry, I wasn't clear on the '
.': that repeats the last command you issued that modified something. That is, if you'd done2ddto delete two lines, hitting '.' would delete a further two lines. If you try to use it to repeat a search, bad things can happen (depending on what modifying-actions might be in you action-history).