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Thursday, February 24, 2011

List of terminal commands for ubuntu

I found a great list of commands and thought I'd share:

Ctrl-a
Move to the start of the line.
Ctrl-e
Move to the end of the line.
Alt-] x
Moves the cursor forward to the next occurrence of x.
Alt-Ctrl-] x
Moves the cursor backwards to the previous occurrence of x.
Ctrl-u
Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line.
Ctrl-k
Delete from the cursor to the end of the line.Ctrl-wDelete from the cursor to the start of the word.
Ctrl-y
Pastes text from the clipboard.
Ctrl-l
Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen.
Ctrl-x OR Ctrl-u
Undo the last changes. 
Ctrl-_Alt-r
Undo all changes to the line.
Alt-Ctrl-e
Expand command line.
Ctrl-r
Incremental reverse search of history.
Alt-p
Non-incremental reverse search of history.
!!
Execute last command in history
!abc
Execute last command in history beginning with abc!nExecute nth command in history
^abc^xyz
Replace first occurrence of abc with xyz in last command and execute it



8 comments:

  1. I haven't installed ubuntu yet, but when I do, i will use this for sure. Post more helpful stuff like this.

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  2. Thanks so much, now I know!

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  3. Nice, will try these out on my laptop.

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  4. Thanks for the tips. Hit me with more

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  5. Thanks I found these very useful :)

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