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Bash Shell Keyboard Shortcuts

This was surprisingly useful. There are a hell of a lot of keyboard shortcuts available for bash. I only knew a few of them!

Bash Shell Keyboard Shortcuts

The meat of the actual article after the jump…

* Ctrl + A - Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on

* Ctrl + E - Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on

* Ctrl + L - Clears the Screen, similar to the clear command

* Ctrl + U - Clears the line before the cursor position. If you are at the end of the line, clears the entire line.

* Ctrl + H - Same as backspace

* Ctrl + R - Let’s you search through previously used commands

* Ctrl + C - Kill whatever you are running

* Ctrl + D - Exit the current shell

* Ctrl + Z - Puts whatever you are running into a suspended background process. fg restores it.

* Ctrl + W - Delete the word before the cursor

* Ctrl + K - Clear the line after the cursor

* Ctrl + T - Swap the last two characters before the cursor

* Esc + T - Swap the last two words before the cursor

* Alt + F - Move cursor forward one word on the current line

* Alt + B - Move cursor backward one word on the current line

* Tab - Auto-complete files and folder names

* Ctrl + W - erase word before cursor

* Ctrl + Y - to paste it (as in delete and copy) all text in front of the cursor

* Esc + . (or Esc + Underscore) - Insert Last Argument

* Ctrl + b - Move back a character

* Ctrl + f - Move forward a character

* Ctrl + r - Search the history backwards

* Ctrl + xx - Move between EOL and current cursor position

* Ctrl + x @ - Show possible hostname completions

* Alt + < - Move to the first line in the history

* Alt + > - Move to the last line in the history

* Alt + ? - Show current completion list

* Alt + * - Insert all possible completions

* Alt + / - Attempt to complete filename

* Alt + . - Yank last argument to previous command

* Alt + c - Capitalize the word

* Alt + d - Delete word

* Alt + l - Make word lowercase

* Alt + n - Search the history forwards non-incremental

* Alt + p - Search the history backwards non-incremental

* Alt + r - Recall command

* Alt + t - Move words around

* Alt + u - Make word uppercase

* Alt + back-space - Delete backward from cursor

* Here “2T” means Press TAB twice

* $ 2T - All available commands(common)

* $ (string) 2T - All available commands starting with (string)

* $ /2T - Entire directory structure including Hidden one

* $ 2T - Only Sub Dirs inside including Hidden one

* $ *2T - Only Sub Dirs inside without Hidden one

* $ ~2T - All Present Users on system from “/etc/passwd”

* $ $2T - All Sys variables

* $ @2T - Entries from “/etc/hosts”

* $ =2T - Output like ls or dir

Monday, April 2nd, 2007 Filed under Technical |