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Bash shortcuts
Great memo !
Original link
25 March 2007 : New memo from http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/08/bash-shell-shortcuts.html
CTRL Key Bound
Ctrl + a – Jump to the start of the line
Ctrl + b – Move back a char
Ctrl + c – Terminate the command
Ctrl + d – Exit the current shell
Ctrl + e – Jump to the end of the line
Ctrl + f – Move forward a char
Ctrl + h – Same as backspace
Ctrl + k – Delete to EOL
Ctrl + l – Clear the screen
Ctrl + r – Search the history backwards
Ctrl + R – Search the history backwards with multi occurrence
Ctrl + t : Swap the last two characters before the cursor
Ctrl + u – Delete backward from cursor
Ctrl + w : Delete the word before the cursor
Ctrl + xx – Move between EOL and current cursor position
Ctrl + x @ – Show possible hostname completions
Ctrl + z – Suspend/ Stop the command. “fg” restores the suspended command.
ALT Key Bound
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 + b – Move backward
Alt + c – Capitalize the word
Alt + d – Delete word
Alt + f – Move forward
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
More Special Keybindings
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
Comments
Rowan
I’ve also published a very similar list of bash/readline keyboard shortcuts (most of these shortcuts are available in all Readline applications).
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Dries
i just printed this for the whole SOC @ Ubizen
handy
and thanks for your reply