coopster
msg:4170634 | 12:21 pm on Jul 15, 2010 (gmt 0) |
CTRL+l (letter "L") clears the terminal. PageDown may do what you want.
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AnonyMouse
msg:4170647 | 12:49 pm on Jul 15, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for the reply - but CTRL+L clears my window and takes the prompt up to the top of the window, however it still leaves my prompt as it was, i.e. not empty :-(
(Good tip though!)
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coopster
msg:4170653 | 12:57 pm on Jul 15, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Did you try the PageDown key? It is all going to depend on the bash interpreter you are running and how it is configured. See the GNU bash manual [gnu.org] for one point of reference.
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TypicalSurfer
msg:4170655 | 12:58 pm on Jul 15, 2010 (gmt 0) |
CTRL+c
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lammert
msg:4170660 | 1:03 pm on Jul 15, 2010 (gmt 0) |
You can use the kill backward command, which is in your shell interpreter probably assigned to Ctrl-U. It deletes all characters from the current position of your cursor to the beginning of the line.
The Ctrl-k key does the opposite: clear all characters from the current cursor position to the end of the line.
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AnonyMouse
msg:4170661 | 1:06 pm on Jul 15, 2010 (gmt 0) |
This has been bugging me so much, I actually tracked down my ex-colleague, here's what he said:
Ctrl-U - deletes to the left
if you're in the middle, Ctrl-K deletes to the right
so I tend to do Ctrl-KU as a habit
Aah, geek productivity tips!
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AnonyMouse
msg:4170667 | 1:13 pm on Jul 15, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Sorry, kudos to lammert, I didn't see his reply before I posted mine. Thanks lammert :-)
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httpwebwitch
msg:4176017 | 4:46 am on Jul 25, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I did not know this. What a useful little shortcut! I'm relatively new at command-line Linux; I need to study that GNU bash manual
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wheel
msg:4176970 | 11:22 pm on Jul 26, 2010 (gmt 0) |
CTRL-R then start typing lets you search your command history. So if you did a command like
mysqldump -u username -p database -a -B>databasebackup.txt
then want to do it again? CTRL-R then hit 'm' and there's the whole command.
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graeme_p
msg:4179493 | 11:09 pm on Jul 30, 2010 (gmt 0) |
@wheel, most useful command line tip ever! Thanks.
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