On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 22:48 +0530, Tha.Suresh wrote: > Get lightning fast and clever at the command line > > You can use keyboard shortcuts and other command line tricks to make > entering commands easier and faster. You might already know about the > ‘tab’ key which completes partial commands and even file and directory > names. > > Here are some other keyboard shortcuts you can use within terminal: > > Ctrl-a Move to the start of the line. > Ctrl-e Move to the end of the line. > Alt-] x Moves the cursor forward to the next occurrence of x. > Alt-Ctrl-] x Moves the cursor backwards to the previous occurrence of x. > Ctrl-u Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line. > Ctrl-k Delete from the cursor to the end of the line. > Ctrl-y Pastes text from the clipboard. > Ctrl-l Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen. > Ctrl-x Ctrl-u Undo the last changes. Ctrl-_ > Alt-r Undo all changes to the line. > Alt- Ctrl-eExpand command line. > Ctrl-r Incremental reverse search of history. > Alt-p Non-incremental reverse search of history. > !! Execute last command in history > !abc Execute last command in history beginning with abc > !n Execute nth command in history > ^abc^xyz Replace first occurrence of abc with xyz in last > command and execute it >
Couple more to add ALT + D delete a word forward from cursor CTRL + W delete a word backword from cursor _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
