Ch.8 Advanced Keyboard Tricks

Question 1

What does clear do?

Answer 1

Clear the Screen

Question 2

What does history do?

Answer 2

Display the contents of the history list

Question 3

What keys delete the character at the cursor location

Answer 3

Ctrl-d

Question 4

What keys transpose (exchange) the character at the cursor location with the one preceding it?

Answer 4

ctrl-t

Question 5

what keys transpose the word at the cursor location with the one preceding it?

Answer 5

Alt-t

Question 6

What keys convert the characters from the cursor location to the end of the world to lowercase?

Answer 6

alt-l

Question 7

What keys convert the characters from the cursor location to the end of the word to uppercase?

Answer 7

Alt-u

Question 8

What does killing and yanking mean?

Answer 8

cutting and pasting

Question 9

Where are items that are cut stored?

Answer 9

in a buffer (a temporary storage area in memory) called the kill-ring

Question 10

What keys kill text from the cursor location to the end of line?

Answer 10

Ctrl-k

Question 11

What keys kill text from the cursor location to the beginning of the line?

Answer 11

ctrl-u

Question 12

What keys kill text from the cursor location to the end of the current word.

Answer 12

alt-d

Question 13

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?

Answer 13

Alt-Backspace

Question 14

What keys yank text from the kill-ring and insert it at the cursor location?

Answer 14

ctrl-y

Question 15

What occurs when we press the tab key while typing a command?

Answer 15

Completion

Question 16

What keys display a list of possible completions?

Answer 16

Alt-? or Double tab

Question 17

what keys insert all possible completions?

Answer 17

Alt-*

Question 18

How would you use history expansion to bash command line 88?

Answer 18

!88

Question 19

What history command moves to the previous history entry

Answer 19

ctrl-p

Question 20

what history command moves to the next history entry

Answer 20

ctrl-n

Question 21

what history commands moves to the beginning (top) of the history list?

Answer 21

Alt-

Question 22

what history command moves to the end (bottom) of the history list?

Answer 22

Alt->

Question 23

What history command reverses incremental search (this searches incrementally from the current command line up the history list)?

Answer 23

Ctrl-r

Question 24

what history command reverse searches, nonincremental

Answer 24

Alt-p

Question 25

What history command forward searches, nonincremental

Answer 25

Alt-n

Question 26

What history command executes the current item in the history list and advances to the next one. This is handy if we are trying to re-execute a sequence of
commands in the history list.

Answer 26

ctrl-o

Question 27

What history expansion coommand repeats the last command.

Answer 27

!!