Tuesday, June 14, 2011

General terminal commands

Alt-B      moves backward one word.
Alt-F      moves forward one word.
Ctrl+A   Home (Move cursor to beginning of line)
Ctrl+C   Kill process (Kill the current process in terminal, also used to copy elsewhere)
Ctrl-C     kills the current process.
Ctrl+D   Log out from the current terminal. In X, this may log you out after a shuting down the emulator.
Ctrl-D    log you out.
Ctrl+E   End (Move cursor to end of line)
Ctrl+K   Delete current line from cursor
Ctrl-K     deletes from the cursor right.
Ctrl+L    Clears terminal output
Ctrl-L     clears the terminal output.
Ctrl-R     Finds the last command matching the entered letters.
Ctrl+R   History search (Finds the last command matching the letters you type)
Ctrl+U   Delete current line
Ctrl-U     Deletes the current line.
CTRL+U  Delete the Entire Line
Ctrl-W   Deletes the word before the cursor.
CTRL+W  Delete the last word
Ctrl+W   Delete word before cursor in terminal (Terminal only, also used to close the current document elsewhere)
Ctrl+Z   Send process to background
Ctrl-Z   Sends the current process to the background.
Shift+insert  Paste
Shift-Insert  Pastes the contents of the clipboard.
Shift+PageUp / PageDown   Scroll terminal output
Tab followed by entered letters lists the available commands beginning with those letters.
Tab   List available commands from typed letters (Ex: type iw and click tab, output   iwconfig iwevent iwgetid iwlist iwpriv iwspy)

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