MacOS iTerm 2 users must turn on meta key — https://coderwall.com/p/_lmivq
Nice visual cheatsheet from the article:
| Ctrl + a | Go to the beginning of the line (Home) |
| Ctrl + e | Go to the End of the line (End) |
| Alt + b | Back (left) one word |
| Alt + f | Forward (right) one word |
| Ctrl + f | Forward one character |
| Ctrl + b | Backward one character |
| Ctrl + xx | Toggle between the start of line and current cursor position |
| Ctrl + u | Cut the line before the cursor position |
| Alt + Del | Delete the Word before the cursor |
| Alt + d | Delete the Word after the cursor |
| Ctrl + d | Delete character under the cursor |
| Ctrl + h | Delete character before the cursor (backspace) |
| Ctrl + w | Cut the Word before the cursor to the clipboard |
| Ctrl + k | Cut the Line after the cursor to the clipboard |
| Alt + t | Swap current word with previous |
| Ctrl + t | Swap the last two characters before the cursor (typo) |
| Esc + t | Swap the last two words before the cursor. |
| Ctrl + y | Paste the last thing to be cut (yank) |
| Alt + u | UPPER capitalize every character from the cursor to the end of the current word. |
| Alt + l | Lower the case of every character from the cursor to the end of the current word. |
| Alt + c | Capitalize the character under the cursor and move to the end of the word. |
| Alt + r | Cancel the changes and put back the line as it was in the history (revert) |
| Сtrl + _ | Undo |
| Ctrl + r | Recall the last command including the specified character(s)(equivalent to : vim ~/.bash_history). |
| Ctrl + p | Previous command in history (i.e. walk back through the command history) |
| Ctrl + n | Next command in history (i.e. walk forward through the command history) |
| Ctrl + s | Go back to the next most recent command. |
| Ctrl + o | Execute the command found via Ctrl+r or Ctrl+s |
| Ctrl + g | Escape from history searching mode |
| Alt + . | Use the last word of the previous command |
Bash also has some handy features that use the ! (bang) to allow you to do some funky stuff with bash commands.
| !! | run last command |
| !blah | run the most recent command that starts with ‘blah’ (e.g. !ls) |
| !blah:p | print out the command that !blah would run (also adds it as the latest command in the command history) |
| !$ | the last word of the previous command (same as Alt + .) |
| !$:p | print out the word that !$ would substitute |
| !* | the previous command except for the last word (e.g. if you type ‘find some_file.txt /‘, then !* would give you ‘find some_file.txt‘) |
| !*:p | print out what !* would substitute |