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System basics: Keyboard shortcuts - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux Tips
System basics: Keyboard shortcuts
- [Instructor] A lot of time working with Linux is spent at the command line or working with text files. So this week, I want to share with you some of the standard keyboard shortcuts that save time and that I use pretty frequently. The first two, Control-A and Control-E, move the cursor to the beginning and end of the line. These are particularly helpful at the command line if you need to make a quick change to part of a long command and you're at the wrong end of it. Jumping to the beginning and end of a line is much better than holding down the arrow keys. In a similar vein, Control-T transposes characters on either side of the cursor, which is useful if, like me, you make typos sometimes. They get edited out of my videos, but typos happen in the real world, and transposing letters saves a couple of keystrokes over backspace, arrow key and the correct key. You'll find that these work in pretty much any Linux app and also in many Mac apps. And, if a process is running and you want…
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System basics: The Linux file system6m 35s
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System basics: The command line5m 23s
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System basics: Keyboard shortcuts1m 40s
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System basics: sudo access and root4m 57s
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System basics: Explore a system4m 38s
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System basics: Exploring Bash7m
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System basics: Bash scripting basics4m 59s
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System basics: The Bash prompt6m 2s
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System basics: Bash output redirection4m 57s
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Bash expansions and substitutions4m 23s
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Bash aliases and functions4m 7s
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Bash operators6m 55s
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Logs5m 4s
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Grub3m 19s
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SysV init4m 43s
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Systemd5m 29s
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Cron8m 7s
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Understanding chroot3m 16s
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System basics: User and group management8m 39s
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System basics: Service management3m 44s
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Backing up data with rsync5m 35s
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Splitting and combining files3m 3s
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Environment configuration files2m 43s
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Working with dotfiles1m 43s
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Exploring the PATH variable3m 51s
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Browsing with the directory stack3m 19s
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Finding or locating files3m 52s
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Working with swap4m 29s
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Read and write caches3m 5s
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Terminals, consoles, and TTYs4m 27s
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Exploring journalctl5m 2s
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