Question
What are your favorite BASH shortcuts?
- Posted on January 2, 2020
- Linux BasicsLinux Commands
Asked by Bobby Iliev
As a SysAdmin/DevOps, I spend a lot of my day in the terminal.
Here are my favorite shortcuts!
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The below two are particularly useful if you have a very long command.
- Delete everything from the cursor to the end of the line:
Ctrl + k
- Delete everything from the cursor to the start of the line:
Ctrl + u
- Delete one worked backwards from cursor:
Ctrl + w
- Search your history backwards, this is probably the one that I use the most, it is really handy and speeds up my work-flow a lot:
Ctrl + r
- Clear the screen, I use this instead of typing the
clearcommand:
Ctrl + l
- Stops the output to the screen:
Ctrl + s
- Enable the output to the screen in case that previously stopped by
Ctrl + s:
Ctrl + q
- Terminate the current command
Ctrl + c
- Throw the current command to background:
Ctrl + z
I use those constantly every day and it saves me a lot of time.
If I’ve missed any feel free to share them in the comments below!
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To go back to the [char] character in the current line.
To go forward to the
[char]character on the current line.To swap two char around the cursor position.