Command Line Shortcuts

Simple Command Line Shortcuts To Speed Up Your Workflow.

Commands

These are basic command line commands, but it turns out not everyone knows about them and they're were handy:

  • Ctrl + A : To move the cursor to the beginning of the line

  • Ctrl + E : To move the cursor to the end of the line

  • Ctrl + U : To clear the line from the cursor back to the beginning

  • Ctrl + R : Search in previous commands:

View File Contents With The Line Numbers:

cat -n file.whatever

Find files containing specific text:

grep -Rl --include \*.py 'search_vector' ./

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