Terminal shortcuts! [Compilation]

August 9, 2010 by shabinesh

Here are few shortcuts to enhance your command line skills:

To open the default editor:

Ctrl-x Ctrl-e

To execute the last command again

$ !!

To use the last string of command:

$ !$ (or) Alt+.(dot)

To move

 
$ Ctrl-f -> Forward one character.
$ Ctrl-b -> Backwards one character.
$ Ctrl-a — Move to the beginning of the line.
$ Ctrl-e — Move to the end of the line.

HIstroy:

'history'

command displays the commands you entered recently. You needn't enter the commands again and again or keep pressing arrow key to find your mile long command, just

• Ctrl-r

  Incremental reverse search.

• Alt-p

  Non-Incremental reverse search.

• type '!' and few characters of the command;
  

  ![chars]

scrolling terminal:

• Shift-Page up

• Shift-Page Down

Reboot the system.

Ctrl + Alt + Del

[Note: By /etc/inittab, you can change the behaviour to shutdown.]

Screen Resolution:

• Shift-Alt- +

  for next X-Server resolution

Copy and paste:
[Note: To cut text is know as ” killing”. To paste is known as "yanking".]

• Ctrl-k =>Cut the text from the current cursor position to the end of the line, and copy it to the buffer.
• Alt-d =>kill from the cursor to the end of the current word, or, if between words, to the end of the next word. Word boundaries are the same as those used by Alt+f.
• Alt-DEL =>Kill from the cursor to the start of the current word, or, if between words, to the start of the previous word. Word boundaries are the same as those used by Alt+b.
• Ctrl-w =>Kill from the cursor to the previous whitespace. This is different than Alt-DEL because the word boundaries differ.
• Ctrl-y =>Yank the most recently killed text back into the buffer at the cursor.