15+ Command Line Hot Keys You Didn't Know About

1. Ctrl + R = search your command history
2. Ctrl + W = deletes a single word
3. Ctrl + U = deletes from the cursor to the beginning of the line
4. Ctrl + K = deletes from the cursor to the end of the line
5. Ctrl + A = sends the cursor to the beginning of the line
6. Ctrl + E = sends the cursor to the end of the line
7. Ctrl + L = clears the terminal
8. Ctrl + D = closes the terminal
9. Ctrl + F = moves the cursor forward one character
10. Ctrl + B = moves the cursor background one character
11. Alt + F = moves the cursor forward one word
12. Alt + B = moves the cursor backwards one word
13. Alt + T = switches two words next to each other
14. Alt + U = changes the characters of the word next to the cursor to lowercase
15. ALT + B = changes the characters of the word next to the cursor to uppercase
16. Ctrl + S = stops all the output to the screen
17. Ctrl + Q = resumes the output after stopping with Ctrl + S
18. Ctrl + XX = move between the beginning of the line and the current position of the cursor
19. Ctrl + _ = undo your last key press

Happy coding!

Comments

[dtaggart]

This is interesting! I was only familiar with one of these!