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Bash Shell Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

my own cheat sheet for my own reference

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Terminal shortcuts

Ctrl + a
MOVE to START of the line
Ctrl + e
MOVE to END of the line
Ctrl + l
CLEAR Line
Alt + f
MOVE forward one word
Alt + b
MOVE backwards one word
Ctrl + k
DEL text from Cursor to END of line
Ctrl + u
DEL text from Cursor to START of line
 

LESS shortcuts

Space/f
Go NEXT page
b
Go PREV page
Enter/Down
Scroll by one line
/ followed by a pattern
to search
Left/Right Arrow
Scroll to the left/right
Home/g
Jump to the TOP of the file
End/G
Jump to the END of the file
line number and then hit g
Jump to a SPECIFIC line
percentage then hit p or %
Jump to a PERCENTAGE of the file
n
NEXT matching search item
N
PREV matching search item