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Monday, October 1, 2012

Bash Terminal shortcuts



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


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