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Using Bash features

Several special key combinations allow you to do things easier and faster with the
GNU shell, Bash, which is the default on almost any Linux system, see Section
3.2.3.2. Below is a list of the most commonly used features; you are strongly
suggested to make a habit out of using them, so as to get the most out of your
Linux experience from the very beginning.

Table 2-2. Key combinations in Bash


Key or key combination Function
Ctrl+A Move cursor to the beginning of the command line.
Ctrl+C End a running program and return the prompt, see Chapter 4.
Ctrl+D Log out of the current shell session, equal to typing exit or logout.
Ctrl+E Move cursor to the end of the command line.
Ctrl+H Generate backspace character.
Ctrl+L Clear this terminal.
Ctrl+R Search command history, see Section 3.3.3.4.
Ctrl+Z Suspend a program, see Chapter 4.
ArrowLeft and ArrowRight Move the cursor one place to the left or right on the
command line, so that you can insert characters at other places than just at the
beginning and the end.
ArrowUp and ArrowDown Browse history. Go to the line that you want to repeat,
edit details if necessary, and press Enter to save time.
Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown Browse terminal buffer (to see text that has
"scrolled off" the screen).
Tab Command or filename completion; when multiple choices are possible, the
system will either signal with an audio or visual bell, or, if too many choices are
possible, ask you if you want to see them all.
Tab Tab Shows file or command completion possibilities.

The last two items in the above table may need some extra explanations. For
instance, if you want to change into the directory directory_with_a_very_long_name,
you are not going to type that very long name, no. You just type on the command
line cd dir, then you press Tab and the shell completes the name for you, if no
other files are starting with the same three characters. Of course, if there are no
other items starting with "d", then you might just as wel type cd d and then Tab.
If more than one file starts with the same characters, the shell will signal this
to you, upon which you can hit Tab twice with short interval, and the shell
presents the choices you have:

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