In bash emacs mode, is there anyway to delete till the previous slash character?
For example if i entered the command cp /usr/local/bin/reallylongincorrectfolder /home/myname/reallylong_and_correct_path and want to just delete the reallylongincorrectfolder.Is there any shortcut? This is a very comman scenario for me in bash.
Something like dF<char> in vi?
bind -P |grep unix-filename-rubout
To test out the keybinding with eg. Ctrl-b:
bind \\C-b:unix-filename-rubout
For permanent usage, add it to ~/.inputrc
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2To add it to
~/.inputrc, add a line like this to that file:"\C-b": unix-filename-rubout. To see the effect, you'll have to start a new bash shell (or run some other program that uses the GNU readline library). – Croad Langshan Jul 29 '18 at 10:50
Alt-Backspace and Ctrl-w are commonly mapped to backward-kill-word, which does that. If you want to find out what it's mapped to on your system (if anything), run bind -P | grep '^backward-kill-word'.
As explained by @Barmar, this is different from unix-word-rubout, which removes to the previous space boundary.
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But that will kill the entire word.. I want to kill only till the last slash – woodstok Jun 11 '13 at 8:59
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It does remove only to the last slash here. Slash is one of the default word separators. Are you sure you're using Bash? – l0b0 Jun 11 '13 at 9:01
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My bad.. Alt-Backspace does remove it till the last slash.What is the difference between ALt-BackSpace and Ctrl-W ? – woodstok Jun 11 '13 at 9:47
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3Ctl-w is normally bound to
unix-word-rubout: Kill the word behind point, using white space as a word boundary. – Barmar Jun 11 '13 at 10:31 -
2This doesn't exactly work. "Words are composed of alphanumeric characters (letters and digits)". Hence it'll stop at much more than just slashes. The default-unbound
unix-filename-ruboutis slightly better, since it'll stop at white space and slash. – Sparhawk May 4 '14 at 1:16
Put this in your .inputrc and start a new shell:
C-b:unix-filename-rubout
Ctrl-b now erases backwards to the next slash.
Nirvana!
Don't forget Ctrl-XCtrl-E will launch your editor so you can edit a complicated command line comfortably.
