I have to look this up so many times that I figured I should just blog about it and have it in one easy-to-find place. =)
Text/cursor control:
Alt-B / Alt-F |
Move the cursor backward/forward one word |
Ctrl-W / Alt-D |
Delete one word to the left/right |
Ctrl-A / Ctrl-E |
Move the cursor to the beginning/end of the line |
Ctrl-U / Ctrl-K |
Erase line to the left/right |
History control:
!! |
Repeat last command run |
!-5 |
Re-run the 5th to last line in the history (!-1 is equivalent to !!) |
!str |
Re-run the last run command that began with str |
!str:n |
The nth argument for the last run command that began with str |
!$ |
The last argument for last run command |
(There are many more history control commands, but I don’t need to use them as frequently. See the last two references for them.)
Other useful shortcuts:
Ctrl-S / Ctrl-Q |
Turn off/on output to the screen (useful if you accidentally press Ctrl-S like I do all the time, or if you have a lot of output streaming to your screen) |
Alt-F2 |
(GNOME/KDE) Display the Run Application dialog |
Also, I learned something new today while fixing up the CSS for the site. Margins can overlap. =O
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts#Command_line_shortcuts
http://www.computerhope.com/ushort.htm
http://blog.macromates.com/2008/working-with-history-in-bash/
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#History-Interaction