bash productivity

bash-tips.md

Shell edition

• 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)
• 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)
• Ctrl + r – search the history backwards
• Ctrl + g – escape from history searching m

Shell commands

• !! – run last command
• !$ – 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

Snippets

# find and copy/rename 
find ./xxx -iname 'some.json' -exec sh -c 'cp "{}" other-path/"$(basename "$(dirname "{}")")"/some.json' \;