Comment by usrusr
5 days ago
The beauty is that often used parameters don't live (and die) in .bash_history. They live on the file system. Sure, the same can be achieved by wrapping in a script, but that needs both a name and content and they better stay in sync on changes or else....
> And good luck trying to run the same programs with different arguments
I don't read the idea as trying to replace arguments as in remove, "don't ever use arguments anymore", but as a DSL for _allowing_ to pull supported arguments into the filename. Basically an args list preprocessor. That would only take away your freedom of including triple-dashes in your file name without there being consequences.
You could just fix whatever is wrong with your bash history and/or learn to use the history properly. Bash also supports programmable completion so you could also use that than come up with some weird hack.
This smells like an XY problem