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Bash Shortcuts

shortcut	Description
Ctrl-a	Move to the start of the line.
Ctrl-e	Move to the end of the line.
Ctrl-b	Move back one character.
Alt-b	Move back one word.
Ctrl-f	Move forward one character.
Alt-f	Move forward one word.
Ctrl-] x	Where x is any character, moves the cursor forward to the next occurance of x.
Alt-Ctrl-] x	Where x is any character, moves the cursor backwards to the previous occurance 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-w	Delete from the cursor to the start of the word.
Esc-Del	Delete previous word (may not work, instead try Esc followed by Backspace)
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-_ does the same
Alt-r	Undo all changes to the line.
Alt-Ctrl-e	Expand 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
!abc:p	Print last command in history beginning with abc
!n	Execute nth command in history
!$	Last argument of last command
!^	First argument of last command
^abc^xyz	Replace first occurance of abc with xyz in last command and execute it