What is your single most favorite command-line trick using Bash? [closed]

Question

Renaming/moving files with suffixes quickly:
cp /home/foo/realllylongname.cpp{,-old}

This expands to:
cp /home/foo/realllylongname.cpp /home/foo/realllylongname.cpp-old

cd -

It's the command-line equivalent of the back button (takes you to the previous directory you were in).

Another favorite:

!!

Repeats your last command. Most useful in the form:

sudo !!

My favorite is '^string^string2' which takes the last command, replaces string with string2 and executes it

$ ehco foo bar baz
bash: ehco: command not found
$ ^ehco^echo
foo bar baz

Bash command line history guide

rename

Example:

$ ls
this_has_text_to_find_1.txt
this_has_text_to_find_2.txt
this_has_text_to_find_3.txt
this_has_text_to_find_4.txt

$ rename 's/text_to_find/been_renamed/' *.txt
$ ls
this_has_been_renamed_1.txt
this_has_been_renamed_2.txt
this_has_been_renamed_3.txt
this_has_been_renamed_4.txt

So useful