Efficient bash cheat sheet

Agenda

Efficient moving
          
Ctrl-a	 Move to the start of the line.
Ctrl-e	 Move to the end of the line.

Ctrl-b	 Move back one character.
Alt-b	 Move back one word.
Ctrl-f	 Move forward one character.
Alt-f	 Move forward one word.

Ctrl-u	 Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line.
Ctrl-k	 Delete from the cursor to the end of the line.
Ctrl-w	 Delete from the cursor to the start of the word.
Alt-d    Delete from the cursor to the end of the word.
Esc-Backspace	 Delete previous word

Ctrl-y	 Pastes text from the clipboard.

Ctrl-l	 Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen.
Ctrl-x Ctrl-u / Ctrl-_	Undo the last changes.
Alt-r	 Undo all changes to the line.
Ctrl-] x Where x is any character, moves the cursor forward to the next occurance of x.

Transformations

Alt-u   Upcase to the end of the word.
Alt-c   Capitalize to the end of the word.
Alt-l   Downcase to the end of the word.

Ctrl-t  Transpose the current letter with the previous one.
Alt-t   Transpose the current word with the previous one.

History

Ctrl-r  Search your history backwards (can be executed incrementally).
Ctrl-p  Previous command in history (can be executed incrementally).
Ctrl-n  Next command in history (can be executed incrementally).
Esc-.   Last argument for the last command (can be executed incrementally).
!$      Last argument for the last command
!!      Last command executed
!NUMBER Command NUMBER on the history
!KEY    Last command beginning with KEY

VI mode

Use at your own risk

"set -o vi" to your ~/.bashrc.