Ch.8 Advanced Keyboard Tricks Flashcards
What does clear do?
Clear the Screen
What does history do?
Display the contents of the history list
What keys delete the character at the cursor location
Ctrl-d
What keys transpose (exchange) the character at the cursor location with the one preceding it?
ctrl-t
what keys transpose the word at the cursor location with the one preceding it?
Alt-t
What keys convert the characters from the cursor location to the end of the world to lowercase?
alt-l
What keys convert the characters from the cursor location to the end of the word to uppercase?
Alt-u
What does killing and yanking mean?
cutting and pasting
Where are items that are cut stored?
in a buffer (a temporary storage area in memory) called the kill-ring
What keys kill text from the cursor location to the end of line?
Ctrl-k
What keys kill text from the cursor location to the beginning of the line?
ctrl-u
What keys kill text from the cursor location to the end of the current word.
alt-d
what keys kill text from the cursor location to the beginning of the current word. if the cursor is at the beginning of a word, kill the previous word?
Alt-Backspace
What keys yank text from the kill-ring and insert it at the cursor location?
ctrl-y
What occurs when we press the tab key while typing a command?
Completion
What keys display a list of possible completions?
Alt-? or Double tab
what keys insert all possible completions?
Alt-*
How would you use history expansion to bash command line 88?
!88
What history command moves to the previous history entry
ctrl-p
what history command moves to the next history entry
ctrl-n
what history commands moves to the beginning (top) of the history list?
Alt-
what history command moves to the end (bottom) of the history list?
Alt->
What history command reverses incremental search (this searches incrementally from the current command line up the history list)?
Ctrl-r
what history command reverse searches, nonincremental
Alt-p
