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Command Editing Shortcuts
Ctrl + a – go to the start of the command line Ctrl + e – go to the end of the command line Ctrl + k – delete from cursor to the end of the command line Ctrl + u – delete from cursor to the start of the command line Ctrl + w – delete from cursor to start of word (i.e. delete backwards one word) Ctrl + y – paste word or text that was cut using one of the deletion shortcuts (such as the one above) after the cursor Ctrl + xx – move between start of command line and current cursor position (and back again) Alt + b – move backward one word (or go to start of word the cursor is currently on) Alt + f – move forward one word (or go to end of word the cursor is currently on) Alt + d – delete to end of word starting at cursor (whole word if cursor is at the beginning of word) Alt + c – capitalize to end of word starting at cursor (whole word if cursor is at the beginning of word) Alt + u – make uppercase from cursor to end of word Alt + l – make lowercase from cursor to end of word Alt + t – swap current word with previous Ctrl + f – move forward one character Ctrl + b – move backward one character Ctrl + d – delete character under the cursor Ctrl + h – delete character before the cursor Ctrl + t – swap character under cursor with the previous one
Command Recall Shortcuts
Ctrl + r – search the history backwards Ctrl + g – escape from history searching mode Ctrl + p – previous command in history (i.e. walk back through the command history) Ctrl + n – next command in history (i.e. walk forward through the command history) Alt + . – use the last word of the previous command
Command Control Shortcuts
Ctrl + l – clear the screen Ctrl + s – stops the output to the screen (for long running verbose command) Ctrl + q – allow output to the screen (if previously stopped using command above) Ctrl + c – terminate the command Ctrl + z – suspend/stop the command
Bash Bang (!) Commands
Bash also has some handy features that use the ! (bang) to allow you to do some funky stuff with bash commands.
!! - run last command !blah – run the most recent command that starts with ‘blah’ (e.g. !ls) !blah:p – print out the command that !blah would run (also adds it as the latest command in the command history) !$ – the last word of the previous command (same as Alt + .) !$:p – print out the word that !$ would substitute !* – the previous command except for the last word (e.g. if you type ‘find some_file.txt /‘, then !* would give you ‘find some_file.txt‘) !:p – print out what ! would substitute