Bash Shortcuts Quick Reference | |
Ctrl-a | Move to the start of the line. |
Ctrl-e | Move to the end of the line. |
Ctrl-b | Move back one character. |
Alt-b | Move back one word. |
Ctrl-f | Move forward one character. |
Alt-f | Move forward one word. |
Ctrl-] x | Where x is any character, moves the cursor forward to the next occurance of x. |
Alt-Ctrl-] x | Where x is any character, moves the cursor backwards to the previous occurance of x. |
Ctrl-u | Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line. |
Ctrl-k | Delete from the cursor to the end of the line. |
Ctrl-w | Delete from the cursor to the start of the word. |
Esc-Del | Delete previous word (may not work, instead try Esc followed by Backspace) |
Ctrl-y | Pastes text from the clipboard. |
Ctrl-l | Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen. |
Ctrl-x Ctrl-u | Undo the last changes. Ctrl-_ does the same |
Alt-r | Undo all changes to the line. |
Alt-Ctrl-e | Expand command line. |
Ctrl-r | Incremental reverse search of history. |
Alt-p | Non-incremental reverse search of history. |
!! | Execute last command in history |
!abc | Execute last command in history beginning with abc |
!abc:p | Print last command in history beginning with abc |
!n | Execute nth command in history |
!$ | Last argument of last command |
!^ | First argument of last command |
^abc^xyz | Replace first occurance of abc with xyz in last command and execute it |
Monday, October 1, 2012
Bash Terminal shortcuts
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