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Last Two Arguments of Previous Command

$ git add --patch packages client
client/src/foo.ts: needs merge
packages/mypkg/src/bar.ts: needs merge

Then we want to simply run the same command without the patch:

$ git add !!:3-4
git add packages client

Note:

word splitting
     git add --patch packages client
     /    |     \       \       \
    /     |      \       \       \
   v      v       v       v       v
 cmd    1º arg  2º arg  3º arg  4º arg

In shell jargon, those arguments are words. We can reuse the the 3rd and 4th words of the last command with !!:3-4.

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