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<\/a><\/p>\nThe +<\/strong> sign is not part of the key combination, it’s just to show what buttons to hit together.<\/p>\n CTRL + “u” -> Delete current text in prompt and move cursor to the beginning I’ll add to this list as I come upon more helpful terminal shortcuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey all, here are some handy terminal shortcuts I’ve stumbled upon in school and work. Maybe they’ll make your life easier as you go about entering commands in a Unix bash shell. The + sign is not part of the key combination, it’s just to show what buttons to hit together. CTRL + “u” -> Delete current text in prompt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[160,11,161,158,5,159],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-bash","tag-commands","tag-shell","tag-shortcuts","tag-terminal","tag-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somethingk.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCTRL + “k” -> Similar to the last, but instead it kills the input
\nCTRL + “y” -> Return the last killed input
\nCTRL + “a” -> Jump cursor to the beginning of your terminal input line
\nCTRL + “e” -> Jump cursor to the end of your terminal input line
\nCTRL + “f” -> Move cursor forward one character (similar to right arrow key)
\nCTRL + “b” -> Move cursor backward one character (similar to left arrow key)
\nCTRL + “d” -> Backwards Delete (For all you Mac users)
\nCTRL + “h” -> Forward Delete
\nCTRL + “r” -> Extremely useful, lets you look up a previous used command. Just press CTRL plus the letter “r” then begin typing the command, the promo will return the last command that used the term.
\nCTRL + “l” -> Clear screen<\/p>\n