Here are some shortcuts:
Movement:
- Ctrl - a: jump to the beginning of the line
- Ctrl - e: jump to the end of the line
- Alt - b: move backward a word
- Alt - f: move forward a word
- Ctrl - f: move forward a character
- Ctrl - b: move backward a character
Editing:
- Ctrl - k: delete the text from the cursor to the end of the line
- Ctrl - u: delete the text backward from the cursor to the beginning of the line
- Ctrl - w: delete the text backward from the cursor to the previous space
- Ctrl - y: paste the kill ring before the cursor
- Ctrl - d: delete the character under the cursor
- Ctrl - h: delete the character before the cursor
- Alt - d: delete from the cursor to the end of the word
- Alt - c: uppercase the current character and move to the end of the word
- Alt - u: uppercase from the cursor to the end of word
- Alt - l: lowercase from the cursor to the end of word
- Alt - t: swap the current word and previous word
- TABTAB: double TAB, auto complete
- $$: process number of the current process
- $?: return code of last finished program
Command Recall:
- Ctrl - r: search command history
- Ctrl - g: exit Ctrl + r without history command, ESC exits with history command in the current line
- Ctrl - p: fetch previous command in the history
- Ctrl - n: fetch next command in the history
- !!: refers to the most recent command
- !string: refer to the most recent command starting with string.
Command Control:
- Ctrl - l: Clear the screen, similar to "clear" command, but preserve the argument if there is any.
- Ctrl - s: Stop screen output
- Ctrl - q: re-enable screen output stopped by Ctrl-s
- Ctrl - c: generate SIGINT signal, usually kills the foreground process
- Ctrl - z: generate SIGSTP signal, usually suspends the foreground process
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