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Back up a file with same name + prefix

October 13, 2020
$ cp todo.txt !#:1.bak
cp todo.txt todo.txt.bak

NOTE: Actually you can use !#:1 in every command 'cause that's last argument passed to a command.

UPDATED: Now it works with zsh

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