Bash Cheat Sheet by oguzkonya
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Command Editing
| 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) |
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Command Editing (cont'd)
| 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 Control
| 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 |
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Command Recall
| 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 |
Bash Bang (!) 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 |
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Reference: http://www.skorks.com/2009/09/bash-shortcuts-for-maximum-productivity/
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