Hi,
Here are few Shortcuts, which you can use in the bash prompt.
Alt+D - Cuts the command string from the current cursor position to
end of the string
Alt+F - Forward navigation of a command (string by string)
Alt+B - Backward navigation of a command (string by string)
Alt+T - Swap two command strings
Alt+C - Capitalizes the command string at the cursor position
Alt+U - Changes all the characters in the command string to upper case
Alt+L - Changes all the characters in the command string to lower case
Ctrl+U - Cut from the cursor position to start of line
Ctrl+K - Cut from cursor position to end of line.
Ctrl+Y - Paste the copied buffer
Ctrl+T - Swap two characters
Ctrl+S - Scroll Lock
Ctrl+Q - Clear/unlock the scroll lock
Ctrl+A - Move to start of the command string.
Ctrl+E - Move to the end of the command string.
Ctrl+B - Moves the cursor by a character backwards.
Ctrl+P - equivalent of uparrow(gives the history of previous command).
Ctrl+O - Executes the previous command executed and it will continue
the sequence.
Ctrl+I - Equivalent of Tab.
Ctrl+J & Ctrl+M - Equivalent of Enter.
Ctrl+X $ -> Environment Variables completion
Ctrl+X ! -> Command completion
Ctrl+X @ -> Hostname Completion
Ctrl+X ~ -> Username completion
Ctrl+X / -> Filename Completion
$ ls /home/zulfi/21/log/error.log
Now to view the log file in directory 22/log/error.log,
The pattern to be replaced and the replacement should be placed
between ^[carat] symbol. This will substitute the 21 with 22 and
run the last command.
$ ^21^22^
To substitute 22 with 23 and run the command.
$ ^22^23^
Most of this shortcuts are provided the readline. Read man readline
for more info.
HTH :)
--
Bharathi S
