On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 22:48, Tha.Suresh <[email protected]> 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. > Nice tips. It's interesting that most of these are standard emacs commands. But the M-] didn't work :( > 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 > > > > -- > Regards, > Tha.Suresh > http://thasulinux.wordpress.com > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- Lots o' Luv, Phani Bhushan Let not your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right - Isaac Asimov (Salvor Hardin in Foundation and Empire) Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
