Cheatography
https://cheatography.com
A sheet with basic bash shortcuts and commands. It is kept as 1 page on purpose: small enough to hang somewhere near the screen, and containing only the stuff I use regularly.
Based upon the bash cheat sheet of CITguy, appended with input from the Learn Linux TV youtube channel, some rephrasing and other small shortcuts.
This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
bash - Movement
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Ctrl + a Go to the start of the command line.
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Ctrl + e Go to the end of the command line.
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Ctrl + xx Exchange point and mark and highlight the region inbetween.
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Ctrl + @ Set the mark (see Ctrl + xx). The mark defaults to start of line.
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Alt + b Back to start of word.
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Alt + f Forward to end of word.
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Ctrl + b Back one character.
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Ctrl + f Forward one character.
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bash - Command control
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Ctrl + l Clear screen.
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Ctrl + s Stop screen output (for verbose commands).
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Ctrl + q Resume screen output.
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Ctrl + c Terminate command.
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Ctrl + z Suspend command (use fg to bring forward).
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bash - Font size
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Ctrl + '+' Increase font size.
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Ctrl + - Decrease font size.
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'reset' Return to default size. (and other default variables).
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bash - Manipulation
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Ctrl + _ Undo.
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Alt + r Undo all changes to the line.
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Alt + c Capitalize current character and move to end of word..
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Alt + u Uppercase from cursor to end of word.
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Alt + l Lowercase from cursor to end of word.
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Alt + t Swap current word with previous word.
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Ctrl + t Swap current character with previous character.
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bash - Command history
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Ctrl + r Search history (new->old).
Enter search string and repeat Ctrl + r to go through results.
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Ctrl + g End history search.
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Ctrl + p Previous command in history.
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Ctrl + n Next command in history.
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Alt + . Last word of previous command.
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"history" Output indexed history of commands.
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bash - Command chaining
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<command>;<command> Chain commands, ignore return values.
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<command> && <command> Chain commands, only continue on no errors.
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bash - Cut/ Paste/ Delete
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Ctrl + u Delete from cursor to start of line.
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Ctrl + k Delete from cursor to end of line.
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Ctrl + w Delete from cursor to start of word.
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Alt + d Delete from cursor to end of word.
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Ctrl + y Paste cut/ deleted text.
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Ctrl + d Quit the bash shell.
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bash - Chitty chitty bang bang
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<bang command>:p Print the command instead of running.
E.g. !!:p or !foo:p.
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!! Run last command.
E.g. Rerun, or use as "sudo !!"
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!foo Run most recent command starting with 'foo'.
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!$ Last word of previous command.
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Previous command without last argument.
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!<history index> Execute numbered command from history.
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bash - Directory referencing and movement
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cd - Go back to previous directory.
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pushd <directory> Move to directory and push it to the stack.
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popd Pop latest dir from the stack and move to previous dir on the stack.
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