Not so stupid shell tricks Slides and videos from a lighting talk on simple shell tricks (using and navigating history and the commandline) Below are all the keystrokes/commands in the presentation for quick reference
Keystroke
Description
CTRL-l
clear the screen without using the clear command
Keystroke /Command
Description
CTRL-p / CTRL-n
Go back in history list/go forward in history list
CTRL-r
Reverse search history.
^foo^bar
Replace ‘foo’ with ‘bar’ in first matching string of previous command
!!:gs/foo/bar/
Replace ’foo’ with ‘bar’ globally (for all matches of ‘foo’) in previous command (!!:s/foo/bar/ is the same as ^foo^bar)
!!
Refer to previous command (in full)
ESC . / ALT-.
Insert last argument to previous command (tap ESC then .)
Keystrokes
Descritption
CTRL-a / CTRL-e
go to beginning/end of line
CTRL-f / CTRL-b
move forward/backward one character
ALT-f / ALT-b
move forward/backwards one word
CTRL-d / CTRL-h
delete forward/backward from cursor one character
ALT-d / ALT-backspace
delete forward/backward from cursor one word
CTRL-w
alternate of ALT-backspace