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Notes
Command derived from plugin
Command derived from prefer­ences
 
.tmux.conf
for this cheatsheet available on Github brenna­nme­ado­wcr­oft­/do­tfiles

.bash_­profile
for this cheatsheet available on Github brenna­nme­ado­wcr­oft­/do­tfiles

TMUX

<Tmux Leader­>+x
Close current pane
 
<Tmux Leader­>+-
New horizontal pane
 
<Tmux Leader­>+|
New vertical pane
 
<Tmux Leader>+z
Toggle current pane to full screen
 
<Tmux Leader­>+[
Set cursor to move up screen
 
Alt+<a­rro­w>
Move to pane in direction of arrow / / / 
<Tmux Leader>
is 
Ctrl+a
  

Navigating Direct­ories

ls
List contents of current directory
 
tree
Display current directory and one level below as tree 
tree <dir>
Display 
<di­r>
and one level below as tree 
cd <di­r>
Change directory to 
<di­r>
 
cd ..
Move up to parent of current directory
 
cd -
Change to previous working directory
 
pushd <dir>
Create mark for 
<di­r>
in a stack
 
popd
Go to marked directory at top of stack

Working With Lines

Ctrl+a
Move cursor to BEGINNING of current line
 
Ctrl+e
Move cursor to END of current line
 
Alt+b
Move cursor BACK one word
 
Alt+f
Move cursor FORWARD one word
 
Ctrl+k
Delete from cursor to END of line
 
Ctrl+u
Delete from cursor to BEGINNING of line
 
Alt+d
Delete word IN FRONT of cursor
 
Ctrl+w
Delete word BEHIND cursor
 

Navigating Processes

ps
List running processes in Bash
 
ctrl-z
Move current process to background in suspended state
 
bg
Start most recent suspended process & run in background
 
fg
Bring most recent background process to foreground
 
kill <pid>
Force quit 
<pi­d>
from 
ps
The output of 
ps
can be piped to another command such as 
grep
or 
kill

Working With Files

vim <fi­le>
Open a file in vim
 
vim .
Open vim at current working directory
 
open .
Open current directory in Finder (OSX)
 
cat <fi­le>
Read and output current file into bash
 
less <fi­le>
Display a paged version of file in terminal
 
findfile <file>
Search current directory and children for 
<fi­le>
Using 
less
instead of 
cat
keeps bash history and screen clean as 
less
opens another window for viewing
 

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  • Published: 21st January, 2017

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