Use the last command's output as input to a command without piping and bind to it to a key sequence in bash.

bind '"\C-h": "\`fc\ \-s\`"'
This is similar to using `!!` or In bash 4.1 it seems you can bind directly to a shell command, but I'm not running that version.
Sample Output 
~: which tcptraceroute                                                    
/usr/bin/tcptraceroute  
                                                                                   
~: ls -al `fc -s`                          
which tcptraceroute
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 38320 2009-07-28 19:10 /usr/bin/tcptraceroute

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By: rthemocap
2010-08-16 17:58:16
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