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		MarcScott on June 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Art of Command Line I'd never even thought about commenting a line I was half way through writing, when suddenly realising I'd forgotten the correct arguments. I normally end up opening another terminal and using man there.

_pvxk on June 16, 2015 [–]

I do this sometimes when I want to run some command first from earlier in my history, then the commented out command also stays in history so I can continue with it after I've re-run the earlier command first.

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