Keyboard Shortcuts - Bash

keyboard_shortcuts__bash.md

Keyboard Shortcuts - Bash

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

• !! – 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 somefile.txt /’, then !* would give you ‘_find somefile.txt’)
• !*:p – print out what !* would substitute

^^ command

$ ls -al
total 12
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Administrator None    0 Jul 21 23:38 .
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Administrator None    0 Jul 21 23:34 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None 1150 Jul 21 23:34 .bash_profile
-rwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None 3116 Jul 21 23:34 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x+ 4 Administrator None    0 Jul 21 23:39 .gem
-rwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None 1461 Jul 21 23:34 .inputrc

$ ^-al^-lash
ls -lash
total 12K
   0 drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Administrator None    0 Jul 21 23:38 .
   0 drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Administrator None    0 Jul 21 23:34 ..
4.0K -rwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None 1.2K Jul 21 23:34 .bash_profile
4.0K -rwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None 3.1K Jul 21 23:34 .bashrc
   0 drwxr-xr-x+ 4 Administrator None    0 Jul 21 23:39 .gem
4.0K -rwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator None 1.5K Jul 21 23:34 .inputrc