It had been a long while not writing any blog posts. Busy in the work.
And also to record the precious moment of yesterday. May God bless us.
When you log in a remote system via shell, you may sometimes find that the Home key and
the End key not working in the remote shell. The problem may be solved by configuring the
terminal and shell environment. But recently I find that there are some shortcuts provided
by the shell very useful in such cases.
Move in the command line
- Move to the start of the line:
Ctrl+a - Move to the end of the line:
Ctrl+e - Move forward a word:
Alt+f - Move backward a word:
Alt+b - Move forward a character:
Ctrl+f - Move backward a character:
Ctrl+b - Move between the beginning of the line and the current position of the cursor:
Ctrl+xx
Delete and clear
- Delete current character:
Ctrl+d - Delete previous character:
Backspace
Kill and yank
- Cut from cursor to the end of line:
Ctrl+k - Cut from cursor to the start of line:
Ctrl+u - Cut from cursor to the end of word:
Alt+d - Cut from cursor to the start of word:
Alt+Backspace - Cut from cursor to previous whitespace:
Ctrl+w - Paste the last cut:
Ctrl+y - Loop through and paste previously cut:
Alt+y(use afterCtrl+y) - Loop through and paste the last argument of previous commands:
Alt+.
Work with processes
- Interrupt (
SIGINT) the current foreground process:Ctrl+c - Suspend (
SIGSTP) the current foreground process:Ctrl+z, usefg process_name - Close the bash shell, sending an
EOFto bash:Ctrl+d
Search the history
- Search:
Ctrl+r - Run the command:
Ctrl+o - Search the last remembered search term:
Ctrl+rtwice - End the search at current history entry:
Ctrl+j - Cancel the search and restore original line:
Ctrl+g - Go to the previous command:
Ctrl+p - Go to the next command:
Ctrl+n - Revert any changes to a command pulled from history:
Alt+r
Control the Screen
- Clear the screen:
Ctrl+l - Stop all output to the screen:
Ctrl+s - Resume output to the screen:
Ctrl+q
Others
- Undo:
Ctrl+-
