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You can show the last few commands used in vi by typing q:

:q is for quitting, while q: is for recent commands.

When moving dot files with a asterisk, the asterisk does not include the dot files unless you turn on “dotglob”.

To turn on (setting the option):

shopt -s dotglob

To turn off (unsetting the option):

shopt -u dotglob