Another very important rule is that a child process will never be able to change the parent’s environment variables, because the child and parent are independent from each other and the child only has a local copy of the parent’s environment:
Ctrl + a
– go to the start of the command line
Ctrl + e
– go to the end of the command line
Ctrl + k
– delete from cursor to the end of the command line
Ctrl + u
– delete from cursor to the start of the command line
Ctrl + w
– delete from cursor to start of word (i.e. delete backwards one word)
Ctrl + y
– paste word or text that was cut using one of the deletion shortcuts (such as the one above) after the cursor
Ctrl + xx
– move between start of command line and current cursor position (and back again)
Alt + b
– move backward one word (or go to start of word the cursor is currently on)
Alt + f
– move forward one word (or go to end of word the cursor is currently on)
Alt + d
– delete to end of word starting at cursor (whole word if cursor is at the beginning of word)
Alt + c
– capitalize to end of word starting at cursor (whole word if cursor is at the beginning of word)
Alt + u
– make uppercase from cursor to end of word
Alt + l
– make lowercase from cursor to end of word
Alt + t
– swap current word with previous
Alt + .
– print previous command’s argument
Ctrl + f
– move forward one character
Ctrl + b
– move backward one character
Ctrl + d
– delete character under the cursor
Ctrl + h
– delete character before the cursor
Ctrl + t
– swap character under cursor with the previous one
Command Recall Shortcuts
Ctrl + r
– search the history backwards
Ctrl + g
– escape from history searching mode
Ctrl + p
– previous command in history (i.e. walk back through the command history)
Ctrl + n
– next command in history (i.e. walk forward through the command history)
Alt + .
– use the last word of the previous command
Command Control Shortcuts
Ctrl + l
– clear the screen
Ctrl + s
– stops the output to the screen (for long running verbose command)
Ctrl + q
– allow output to the screen (if previously stopped using command above)
Ctrl + c
– terminate the command
Ctrl + z
– suspend/stop the command
for debuging purpose
Ctrl + Alt + e
- $SHELL /bin/bash
Bash Bang (!) Commands
Bash also has some handy features that use the ! (bang) to allow you to do some funky stuff with bash commands.
!!
– run last command
!blah
– run the most recent command that starts with ‘blah’ (e.g. !ls)
!blah:p
– print out the command that !blah would run (also adds it as the latest command in the command history)
!$
– the last word of the previous command (same as Alt + .)
!$:p
– print out the word that !$ would substitute
!*
– the previous command except for the last word (e.g. if you type ‘_find somefile.txt /’, then !* would give you ‘_find somefile.txt’)
!*:p
– print out what !* would substitute
tail -f log_file | egrep -v 'ELB|Pingdom|Health'
– filter out stuff has certain keywords