Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts for terminal [closed]

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How can I move around the bash commandline efficiently?

After googling for some Mac OS X terminal shortcuts, I wanted to find how can I go back characters on a line on the terminal or words or similar. I found ALT + B but it does not work.

Do you know some other shortcuts, or how can I customize them or links to cheat sheets?

Answer 1

You want the READLINE section of the bash(1) man page:

man 1 bash
/^READLINE

Answer 2

Mac OS X's terminal is BASH, here's some BASH shortcuts:

Ctrl + A    Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on
Ctrl + E    Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on
Ctrl + L    Clears the Screen, similar to the clear command
Ctrl + U    Clears the line before the cursor position. If you are at the end of the line, clears the entire line.
Ctrl + H    Same as backspace
Ctrl + R    Let’s you search through previously used commands
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.
Ctrl + W    Delete the word before the cursor
Ctrl + K    Clear the line after the cursor
Ctrl + T    Swap the last two characters before the cursor
Esc + T  Swap the last two words before the cursor
Alt + F  Move cursor forward one word on the current line
Alt + B  Move cursor backward one word on the current line
Tab      Auto-complete files and folder names

The one you are looking for is Ctrl + H. (This is the same as hitting the backspace key)

If you are looking for an escape character to go back one character, you are looking for \b. As in:

$ echo -e "one two\b\b\b\b three" # Will echo "one three"