Command line Shortcut

Command line Shortcut

Esc shft + b - moves cursor(c) BACK to begin of a text. eg. (c)albert (c)mckeever (c)help
Esc shft+ f  moves cursor(c) FORWARD to begin of a text. eg. (c)albert (c)mckeever (c)help 
shft + cmd - selects all
Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E - home and end
Ctrl+U: This clears the entire line so you can type in a completely new command.
Ctrl+K: This deletes the line from the position of the cursor to the end of the line.
Ctrl+W: This deletes the word before the cursor only.
Ctrl+R: This lets you search your command history for something specific.
Tab: autocomplete 

File Paths
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$ Dragging Files from FINDER Into the Terminal Window => $albert/sites/project
$ cd ..          moves you one folder up.
$ cd ../config   moving in the directory will take you to the config dir from the app dir.
$ cd -           This will move you back to your last working directory
$ cd             move you to the home dir
$ !!             to represent the last command you ran
$ !cat           if you want to run the last command that used cat
$ !cat:p         If you just want to see what the last cat command was, you can instead run:

Replacing
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$  ^projact^projects      - will replace your last command with the new string. so, cd Sites/projact/rails becomes Sites/projects/rails

History
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$ history               display all commands
$ history | grep Sites  displays all history with Sites commands. 
eg...  481 cd/Sites
       482 cd/Sites/codes
$ !482                  runs the command cd/Sites/codes