Today I thought on sharing with you some bash command line tricks to help improve your productivity and help you earn a few geek points
This tricks will help you a lot and helps you to extent your keyboard live by saving a few hundredth strokes
we will dive into the bash history secrets and the ! (bang) command:
- !!
This bang command, when entered into the bash shell will run the previous command. It basically does the same thing as hitting the up arrow and hitting enter.
- !command
Ex: !ls
This will run the last command that started with ‘ls’.
- !command:p
Ex: !ls:p
This will display the command instead of running it.
- !$
Ex: !$ or echo !$
The last word of the previous command. This the same as hitting Esc + . and is mainly useful for substitutions.
- !$:p
Instead of running the last word of the previous command this will print it out.
- !*
Runs the previous command without the first word.
- !*:p
This will print the previous command without the first word.
- Ctrl + r
Hit Ctrl + r and start typing, bash will search and show you the last command you rand that satisfies the search text you typed
- Ctrl + s
Everything you type will not be shown
- Ctrl + q
Inverts the effect of Ctrl + s, now everything is shown
- Ctrl + a
Goes to the beginning of the line
- Ctrl + e
Goes to the end of the line
- Ctrl + w
Deletes the previous word
- Esc + Esc
word compellation, it's the same as hitting tab
- Esc + backspace
Deletes until finding a delimiter, if hitting Esc + backspace on file.txt the .txt will be deleted
What are your favorite command line tricks ?