Bash Shell Keyboard Shortcuts For Linux Users    Tuesday, April 03 2007 @ 01:56 PM EDT Contributed by: sde The default shell on most Linux operating systems is called Bash. There are a couple of important hotkeys that you should get familiar with if you plan to spend a lot of time at the command line. These shortcuts will save you a ton of time if you learn them. Ctrl + A - Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on Ctrl + E - Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on Ctrl + L - Clears the Screen, similar to the clear command Ctrl + U - Clears the line before the cursor position. If you are at the end of the line, clears the entire line. Ctrl + H - Same as backspace Ctrl + R - Let’s you search through previously used commands Ctrl + C - Kill whatever you are running Ctrl + D - Exit the current shell Ctrl + Z - Puts whatever you are running into a suspended background process. fg restores it. Ctrl + W - Delete the word before the cursor Ctrl + K - Clear the line after the cursor Ctrl + T - Swap the last two characters before the cursor Esc + T - Swap the last two words before the cursor Alt + F - Move cursor forward one word on the current line Alt + B - Move cursor backward one word on the current line Tab - Auto-complete files and folder names Ctrl + W - erase word before cursor Ctrl + Y - to paste it (as in delete and copy) all text in front of the cursor Esc + . (or Esc + Underscore) - Insert Last Argument Ctrl + b - Move back a character Ctrl + f - Move forward a character Ctrl + r - Search the history backwards Ctrl + xx - Move between EOL and current cursor position Ctrl + x @ - Show possible hostname completions Alt + Alt + > - Move to the last line in the history Alt + ? - Show current completion list Alt + * - Insert all possible completions Alt + / - Attempt to complete filename Alt + . - Yank last argument to previous command Alt + c - Capitalize the word Alt + d - Delete word Alt + l - Make word lowercase Alt + n - Search the history forwards non-incremental Alt + p - Search the history backwards non-incremental Alt + r - Recall command Alt + t - Move words around Alt + u - Make word uppercase Alt + back-space - Delete backward from cursor Here "2T" means Press TAB twice $ 2T - All available commands(common) $ (string) 2T - All available commands starting with (string) $ /2T - Entire directory structure including Hidden one $ 2T - Only Sub Dirs inside including Hidden one $ *2T - Only Sub Dirs inside without Hidden one $ ~2T - All Present Users on system from "/etc/passwd" $ $2T - All Sys variables $ @2T - Entries from "/etc/hosts" $ =2T - Output like ls or dir   [ Views: 2086 ]

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