Bash

Moving

Syntax	Description
`Ctrl + a`	Go to beginning of line
`Ctrl + e`	Go to end of line
`Alt + f`	Move forward one word
`Alt + b`	Move back one word
`Ctrl + f`	Move forward one char
`Ctrl + b`	Move back one char
`Ctrl + u`	Delete characters left of the cursor
`Ctrl + k`	Delete characters right of the cursor
`Ctrl + w`	Delete the word left of the cursor
`Ctrl + d`	Delete the word to the left of the cursor
`Ctrl + \_`	Undo
`Ctrl + r`	History search (multiple time to cycle through resul)
`Arrow Up`	History commands older
`Arrow Down`	History commands newer
`Ctrl + y`	Paste
`Alt + l`	Lower case the current word after cursor
`Alt + u`	Upper case the current word after cursor
`Alt + c`	Capitalize current word after cursor
`Ctrl + l`	Clear terminal screen
`Ctrl + Alt + F?`	Exit terminal session

pushd Go to destination popd Get back from destination

Bash Commands

Bash Aliases

Completion

Bash completion allow you to dynamicaly complete bash commands.

View an example tmux-bash-completion

Autocorrection

Prompt

d - the date in "Weekday Month Date" format (e.g., "Tue May 26")
e - an ASCII escape character (033)
h - the hostname up to the first .
H - the full hostname
j - the number of jobs currently run in background
l - the basename of the shells terminal device name
n - newline
r - carriage return
s - the name of the shell, the basename of $0 (the portion following the final slash)
t - the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format
T - the current time in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format
@ - the current time in 12-hour am/pm format
A - the current time in 24-hour HH:MM format
u - the username of the current user
v - the version of bash (e.g., 4.00)
V - the release of bash, version + patch level (e.g., 4.00.0)
w - Complete path of current working directory
W - the basename of the current working directory
! - the history number of this command
# - the command number of this command
$ - if the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a $
nnn - the character corresponding to the octal number nnn
\ - a backslash
[ - begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which could be used to embed a terminal control sequence into the prompt
] - end a sequence of non-printing characters

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