Bash Shell Keyboard Shortcuts For Linux Users

Tuesday, April 03 2007 @ 01:56 PM EDT

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

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