Shell command line editingEdit
This is a list of useful editing commands available in the Bash shell on Mac OS X. Unfortunately many other editing commands are omitted because they use the "meta" key (Command on the Mac), which is intercepted by the Terminal application and never actually sent to the underlying shell. Unfortuantely the Opt key can’t be used as a substitute, because it is already used to assist typing non-ASCII characters.
Movement
<C-a>: move to start of line<C-e>: move to end of line
Cutting and pasting
<C-k>: kill (cut) from cursor to end of line<C-w>: kill (cut) from cursor to previous whitespace<C-y>: yank (paste) previously killed text at cursor
Other
<C-l>: clear screen, reprinting current line at top<C-u>: undo last edit
Redundant commands
<C-b>: move back one character (equivalent to left cursor)<C-f>: move forward one character (equivalent to right cursor)<C-d>: delete character under cursor (equivalent to delete)
<C-a>: move to start of line<C-e>: move to end of line<C-k>: kill (cut) from cursor to end of line<C-w>: kill (cut) from cursor to previous whitespace<C-y>: yank (paste) previously killed text at cursor
Other
<C-l>: clear screen, reprinting current line at top<C-u>: undo last edit
Redundant commands
<C-b>: move back one character (equivalent to left cursor)<C-f>: move forward one character (equivalent to right cursor)<C-d>: delete character under cursor (equivalent to delete)
<C-l>: clear screen, reprinting current line at top<C-u>: undo last edit<C-b>: move back one character (equivalent to left cursor)<C-f>: move forward one character (equivalent to right cursor)<C-d>: delete character under cursor (equivalent to delete)