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Become More Efficient at The Command Line With These Handy Bash Shortcuts

This document provides a summary of useful Bash shortcuts and commands organized into the following sections: History, File and navigation, Colourize bash, Keyboard shortcuts, Running commands in sequence, Redirecting I/O, check for open ports, and Info. Some highlighted shortcuts include ctrl+r for reverse searching history, !! to rerun the last command, and !* to reuse arguments from the previous command. It also provides tips for coloring output, navigating directories, and running commands sequentially with && and ;.

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Become More Efficient at The Command Line With These Handy Bash Shortcuts

This document provides a summary of useful Bash shortcuts and commands organized into the following sections: History, File and navigation, Colourize bash, Keyboard shortcuts, Running commands in sequence, Redirecting I/O, check for open ports, and Info. Some highlighted shortcuts include ctrl+r for reverse searching history, !! to rerun the last command, and !* to reuse arguments from the previous command. It also provides tips for coloring output, navigating directories, and running commands sequentially with && and ;.

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Opensource.

com: Bash Cheat Sheet By Steve Ovens and Ian Miell

Become more efficient at the command line with these handy Bash shortcuts.
History
Reverse search: ctrl + r
Rerun last command: !!
Reuse arguments from previous command: !*
Use last argument of last command: !$
nth argument: !:2
All the arguments: !:1-$
Last but n: !-2:$
Get the folder: !$:h
The current line: !#:1
Search and replace: !!:gs
Allow multiple terminals to write to the history file: shopt -s histappend
List the most used history commands: history | awk 'BEGIN {FS="[ \t]+|\\|"} {print $3}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head

File and navigation


cp /home/foo/realllylongname.cpp{,-old}
cd -
rename 's/text_to_find/been_renamed/' *.txt
export CDPATH='/var/log:~' (variable is used with the cd built-in.)

Colourize bash Keyboard shortcuts


Enable colors Corrects typoos: shopt -s cdspell
eval "`dircolors -b`" Undo: ctrl + _
Force ls to always use color and type indicators Move forward a word: ctrl + arrow
alias ls='ls -hF --color=auto' Move cursor to start: ctrl + a
Move cursor to end: ctrl + e
Make the dir command work kinda like in windows (long format)
Cuts everything after the cursor: ctrl + k
alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=long'
Clears screen: ctrl + l
Make grep highlight results using color Resume command that is in the foreground: ctrl + q
export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' Pause a long running command in the foreground: ctrl + s
Swap two characters: ctrl + t
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m' Cuts everything before the cursor: ctrl + u
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;33m' Opens the command string in an editor so that you can edit it
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m' before it runs: ctrl + x + ctrl + e
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m' # end the info box Expand glob/star: ctrl + x + *
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;42;30m' # begin the info box Move to the opposite end of the line: ctrl + xx
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m' Pastes from the buffer: ctrl + y
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;36m' Copy/paste into terminal: ctrl + shift + c/v

Running commands in sequence Examine executable


Run second command if the first is successful: && which <command>
Run second command regardless of success of first one: ; file <path/to/file>
command -V <some command binary> (tells you whether
<some binary> is a built-in, binary or alias)
Redirecting I/O
Topics
Redirect stdout and stderr to a file: 2>&1 LinuxBash

check for open ports Info


echo > /dev/tcp/<server ip>/<port> [1] https://opensource.com/article/18/5/bash-tricks
`` (use back ticks to shell out) [2] https://opensource.com/article/19/10/bash-history-shortcuts

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