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System basics: Keyboard shortcuts

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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