Some bash shortcut for Mac OsX found in different webpages

Very useful to move around and do little magic with bash

Ctrl-a | Move to the start of the line.

Ctrl-e | Move to the end of the line.

Ctrl-] x | Where x is any character, moves the cursor forward to the next occurance of x.

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-d | delete one character at the cursor position

Ctrl-w | Delete from the cursor to the start of the big word (space delimited). Add deleted word to clipboard

Ctrl-t | transpose two previous characters

Esc BackSpace | Delete previous small word (delimited by anything that is not a number or a letter)

Esc f | move forward a small word

Esc b | move backward a small word

Esc u | Uppercase word under cursor and move to next word.

Esc l |Lowercase word under cursor and move to next word.

Esc . | Insert last word from previous command after cursor.<

Ctrl – xx | move between start of command line and current cursor position (and back again)

Esc t | transpose two adjacent “words”

Ctrl-y | Pastes text from the clipboard.

Ctrl-_ | Undo the last changes.

Ctrl-r | Incremental reverse search of history.

!! | Execute last command in history

!abc | Execute last command in history beginning with abc

!abc:p | Print last command in history beginning with abc

!* | The previous command except for the first word

!$ | Last argument of last command

!^ | First argument of last command

(these last commands with :p do not get executed)

!n | Execute nth command in history

^abc^xyz |  Replace first occurance of abc with xyz in last command and execute it

Ctrl-c | Kill whatever you are running

Ctrl-d | Exit the current shell

Ctrl-z | Puts whatever you are running into a suspended background process. fg restores it.