Shortcuts to Move Faster in Terminal

Nowdays we spend a lot of time in bash shell, typing long and complex commands. You can use the arrow keys up/down/left/right to move the cursor and select commands, but that's not so efficient.

By default, bash command line uses the shortcuts of emacs, so the following commands are mostly from emacs, you can also use the shortcuts of vim by setting set -o vi.

Move

Move in Charactor

• C-b: Move back one charactor(C is for Ctrl)
• C-f: Move forward one charactor

Move in Word

• A-f: Move forward a word(A is for Alt)
• A-b: Move backward a word

Move in Line

• C-a: Move to the ahead of the line
• C-e: Move to the end of the line

Edit

Cut in Charactor

• C-d: Delete current charactor
• Backspace: Delete previous charactor
• C--: Undo

Cut in Word

• A-d: Cut from cursor to the end of word
• A-Backspace: Cut from cursor to the start of word
• C-w: Cut from cursor to previous whitespace

Cut in Line

• C-k: Cut(kill) from cursor to the end of line
• C-x-Backspace: Cut from cursor to the start of line

Paste

• C-y: Paste(yank) the last cut text
• A-y(after C-y): Redo pasting the last cut text

Transpose

• C-t: Transpose the charactor under the cursor and the one before it
• Esc-t: Transpose the word under the cursor and the one before it

Search

• C-p: Retrieve the previous command
• C-n: Retrieve the next command
• C-s: Forward search
• C-r: Reverse search
• C-g: Quit the search mode

Replace(The bang ! commands)

• !!: Excute last command
• !top: Excute the most recent command that starts with top
• !$: Excute the last word of the previous command
• !*: Excute the all words of the previous command except the first
• ![pattern]:p: Display the ! command result