Linux Tricks

Bash

• Ctrl+L - clear screen

• Ctrl+A - go to the beginning of the line

• Ctrl+E - go to the end of the line

• Ctrl+U - delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line

• Ctrl+K - delete from the cursor to the end of the line

• Ctrl+left (Alt-B) - jump next word backward

• Ctrl+right (Alt-F) - jump next word forward

• Alt-D - delete the word after the cursor

vi

• i - insert text before the cursor

• I - insert text at the beginning of the line

• a - append text after the cursor

• A - append text at the end of the line

• R - replace mode until ESC

• ^ - go to the beginning of the line

• $ - go to the end of the line

• d2w - delete 2 words

• d2d - delete 2 lines

• D - clear the line

• d$ - delete to the end of the line

• d^ - delete to the beginning of the line

• [from],[to]d - delete range of lines

• .,$d - delete from the current line to the end of the file

• dG - deletes all lines to the end of the file

• dgg - delete from the current line to the beginning of the file

• :g /word/d - delete all lines that content word

• g!/word/d - delete all lines that don't content word

• u - undo

• 11G - go to line number 11

• gg - go to the first line

• G - go to the last line

• %s/old/new/g - substitute - change every occurrence in the file

• set ic - set ignore case

• set noic - unset ignore case

• set number - show line numbers

• r filename - insert text from a file

• 6,8w file99 - writes lines from 6 to 8 to a new file.

Git

• git commit -a -m "Message"

• git push