Command line shortcut¶

Interact with processes¶

Shortcut	Action
CTRL-c	Kill current foreground process (SIGINT)
CTRL-z	Suspend current foreground process (SIGTSTP)
CTRL-d	Close bash shell (EOF). Equivalent to `exit`

Shortcut	Action
CTRL-l	Clear screen. Equivalent to `clear`
CTRL-s	Stop output to the screen
CTRL-q	Resume output to the screen

Shortcut	Action
CTRL-a	Go to beginning of the line
CTRL-e	Go to end of the line
ALT-b	Go left one word
CTRL-b	Go left one character
ALT-f	Go right one word
CTRL-f	Go right one character
CTRL-xx	Go to beginning of line keeping cursor position. CTRL-xx again to go back to this position.

Shortcut	Action
CTRL-d	Delete character under cursor
ALT-d	Delete all characters after cursor on current line
CTRL-h	Delete character before cursor (like `backspace`)

Shortcut	Action
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