Movement

  • ALT+F to jump Forward by a word.
  • ALT+B to jump Backward by a word.
  • CTRL+F to move forward by a char
  • CTRL+B to move backward by a char
  • CTRL+A to jump to start of the line
  • CTRL+E to jump to end of the line
  • CTRL+K to kill the line starting from the cursor position
  • ALT+D to delete a word starting from the current cursor position
  • CTRL+W to remove the word backwards from cursor position
  • CTRL+R to reverse search for commands you typed in the past from your history.
  • CTRL+S to forward search (works in ZSH for me but not bash)

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Scripting

  • To assign a variable, use = without space

  • To use a variable, simply add $ before it

  • set -x Show what’s executed

  • set -e If the return code of one command is not 0 and the caller does not check it, the shell script will exit. This feature make shell script robust.

  • $0 - Name of the script

  • $1 to $9 - Arguments to the script. $1 is the first argument and so on.

  • $@ - All the arguments

  • $# - Number of arguments

  • $? - Return code of the previous command

  • $$ - Process identification number (PID) for the current script

  • !! - Entire last command, including arguments. A common pattern is to execute a command only for it to fail due to missing permissions; you can quickly re-execute the command with sudo by doing sudo !!

  • $_ - Last argument from the last command. If you are in an interactive shell, you can also quickly get this value by typing Esc followed by . or Alt+.