Bash shortcuts for Mac

bash_shortcut.md

To Use the option (⌥) key, set it as meta key

Moving the cursor

• ⌃a: Go to the beginning of the line
• ⌃e: Go to the end of the line
• ⌃p: Previous command (Up arrow)
• ⌃n: Next command (Down arrow)
• ⌃f: Forward one character
• ⌃b: Backward one character
• ⌃xx: Toggle between the start of line and current cursor position
• ⌥f: Forward one word
• ⌥b: Backward one word

Editing

• ⌃L: Clear the screen, similar to the clear command
• ⌥Del: Delete the word before the cursor
• ⌥d: Delete the word after the cursor
• ⌃d: Delete character under the cursor
• ⌃w: Cut the word before the cursor to the clipboard
• ⌃k: Cut the line after the cursor to the clipboard
• ⌃u: Cut/delete the line before the cursor position
• ⌃y: Paste (yank)
• ⌥t: Swap current word with previous
• ⌃t: Swap the last two characters before the cursor
• Esc + t: Swap the last two words before the cursor
• ⌥u: UPPER capitalize every character from the cursor to the end of the current word
• ⌥c: Capitalize the character under the cursor and move to the end of the word
• ⌃-: Undo

History

• ⌃r: Recall the last command including the specified character(s) searches the command history as you type. Equivalent to : vim ~/.bash_history
• ⌃p: Previous command
• ⌃n: Next command in history
• ⌥.: Use the last word of the previous command

Process control

• ⌃c: Interrupt/Kill running process
• ⌃s: Stop output to the screen (for long running verbose commands)
• ⌃q: Allow output to the screen
• ⌃d: Send an EOF marker, unless disabled by an option, this will close the current shell
• ⌃z: Send th signal SIGTSTP to the current task, which suspends it. To return to it later enter fg 'process name'