some terminal keyboard shortcuts I'd be interested to hear if there's anything super important I missed, obviously there are 1000 readline shortcuts and there's no space for that but there's maybe space for 1 more thing - ThreadSky

b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy • 39 days ago

some terminal keyboard shortcuts

I'd be interested to hear if there's anything super important I missed, obviously there are 1000 readline shortcuts and there's no space for that but there's maybe space for 1 more thing

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greem.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@b0rk And an extension to the SSH ~. trick, if you're logged in to something through another (or more than one) SSH session, then ~~~. or ~~. break out of the third one and second one down respectively. You can imagine what a four or seven etc level break would be!

Saves typing in credentials […]

gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@[email protected]
Sending a KILL signal to a process to end it is bad practice. It doesn't allow the process to gracefully shut down, close any open files, write out any data in buffer to disk, among others.

I always use -XCPU instead.

It tells the process that it's exceeded its allotment […]

fm-volker.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@b0rk 1 more thing: `rlwrap` for things that don't edit!

b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@fm_volker that might be the winner tbh

wollman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@b0rk The one thing not on this list that I use *all* the time is M-. (that's meta-dot, using whatever keys your terminal emulator wants for meta sequences), which copies the last *word* of the previous command in the history. Readline calls this `yank-last-arg`. If you do it multiple times, it […]

rpardee.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@b0rk one I use a lot is right-click to paste

zeyus.corteximplant.com.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@b0rk Nice work, it covers pretty much everything you need on a daily basis. I don't think it's necessary but sometimes I've had to resort to `Ctrl+Insert` for copy and `Shift+Insert` for paste.

It might be worth mentioning `disown` in the `Ctrl-z` note, as it can be useful if you started […]

KasTasMykolas.river.group.lt.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@b0rk mhm. I'd really like Ctrl + C emphasized as SIGINT (for some people it's still some kind of mistique, with various terminology like "Keyboard Interrupt").

Maybe Ctrl + \ is worth a mention? As a SIGQUIT

While Ctrl + Z being explicitly SIGSTOP.

While... Ctrl + D not being a signal at all...

TheCoolest.dftba.club.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@b0rk

Ctrl + R
I use it all the time to search command history. Much faster than pressing the up arrow until whatever I was looking for turns up.

zigdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@b0rk maybe `^V`, to quote the next character in the shell? good for entering literal `^M`s mostly.

Oh! and `\\`, also good for line continuations, but also for quoting single characters, e.g. ` `.

b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@zigdon what's a situation where you need to enter literal ^Ms?

zigdon.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@b0rk entering a multiline bash script, so that it will still be saved in a single history line (and be searchable/repeatable later)

nafmo.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@b0rk I have found Ctrl+P a very useful alternative for the up arrow after the up arrow key on my MacBook broke (and it costs like USD1000 to fix it!); on macOS it even works inside the browser text edit widgets.

mogul.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@b0rk For the nuclear option: have you met my good friend "killall"?
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-killall-command-examples-usage-syntax/

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