The work computer of one of my colleagues has recently closed the circle and he has now a shiny new apple computer. He is very well-versed in a bunch of computer related tasks, nonetheless he asked me the other day about shortcuts to navigate a shell terminal. I showed him a few tricks, and I thought posting some here just in case they are helpful to my readers too:
- To go to the beginning of the command line – Ctlr+A
- To go to the end of the command line – Ctr+E
- To delete from the current position to the beginning of the line – Ctrl+U
- To undelete – Ctrl+Y
- To delete words to the front of current position – Ctrl+K
- To delete words to the back of current position – Ctrl-W
He also was wondering about an easy way to create a file and open it immediately. The way I do that is with a bash function placed in my .bashrc file
mytouch {
touch #1
open #1
}
Enjoy!
