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Command derived from plugin
Command derived from prefer­ences
.tmux.conf for this cheatsheet available on Github brennanmeadowcroft/dotfiles

.bash­_pr­ofile for this cheatsheet available on Github brennanmeadowcroft/dotfiles

TMUX

<Tmux Leader­>+x
Close current pane
<Tmux Leader­>+-
New horizontal pane
<Tmux Leader­>+|
New vertical pane
<Tmux Leader>+z
Toggle current pane to full screen
<Tmux Leader­>+[
Set cursor to move up screen
Alt+<­arr­ow>
Move to pane in direction of arrow / / /
<Tmux Leader­> is Ctrl+a
 

Navigating Direct­ories

ls
List contents of current directory
tree
Display current directory and one level below as tree
tree <dir>
Display <d­ir> and one level below as tree
cd <di­r>
Change directory to <d­ir>
cd ..
Move up to parent of current directory
cd -
Change to previous working directory
pushd <dir>
Create mark for <d­ir> in a stack
popd
Go to marked directory at top of stack

Working With Lines

Ctrl+a
Move cursor to BEGIN­NING of current line
Ctrl+e
Move cursor to END of current line
Alt+b
Move cursor BACK one word
Alt+f
Move cursor FORWARD one word
Ctrl+k
Delete from cursor to END of line
Ctrl+u
Delete from cursor to BEGIN­NING of line
Alt+d
Delete word IN FRONT of cursor
Ctrl+w
Delete word BEHIND cursor
 

Navigating Processes

ps
List running processes in Bash
ctrl-z
Move current process to background in suspe­nded state
bg
Start most recent suspended process & run in background
fg
Bring most recent background process to foreground
kill <pid>
Force quit <p­id> from ps
The output of ps can be piped to another command such as grep or kill

Working With Files

vim <fi­le>
Open a file in vim
vim .
Open vim at current working directory
open .
Open current directory in Finder (OSX)
cat <fi­le>
Read and output current file into bash
less <fi­le>
Display a paged version of file in terminal
findfile <file>
Search current directory and children for <f­ile­>
Using less instead of cat keeps bash history and screen clean as less opens another window for viewing

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  • Published: 21st January, 2017

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