I tend to forget these so I’m documenting them here for posterity.
1. Moving around quickly
ctrl + a– move to beginning of the linectrl + e– move to end of the linealt + f– move forwardalt + b– move backward
2. ctrl + r – Search shell history. Keep using ctrl + r to cycle results. ctrl + g will preserve what you’ve typed in search and exit the search interface.
3. Clear terminal
$ clear
// or ctrl + l4. Cut and paste
ctrl + k– Cut (kill) to end of linectrl + u– Cut to beginning of linealt + d– Cut wordctrl + w– Cut word backwardctrl + y– Pastes whatever was cut (yank!)
5. Prepend sudo to previoius command:
$ sudo !!6. alt + . – Insert previous command’s argument
7. Unbork your shell
$ reset
My faves include “pushd” and “popd” along with “dirs -v”, all aliased, of course (pu, po, d). Instead of cd’ing to different directories, pushd them onto the stack, popd them off the stack, and “pushd +n” to pull a directory off the stack.
These are great! I’ll be using
pushdandpopdconstantly. Huge shortcut. Thank you!