Shell

Question 1

Delete the character to the left of the insertion point.

Answer 1

Control-H Or use Delete.

Question 2

Delete the character to the right of the insertion point.

Answer 2

Control-D Or use Fn-Delete.

Question 3

Forward delete on keyboards that don’t have a Forward Delete key.

Answer 3

Control-D.

Question 4

Page Up — Scroll up one page.

Answer 4

Fn-Up Arrow

Question 5

Page Down — Scroll down one page.

Answer 5

Fn-Down Arrow

Question 6

Home — Scroll to the beginning of a document.

Answer 6

Fn-Left Arrow

Question 7

End — Scroll to the end of a document.

Answer 7

Fn-Right Arrow

Question 8

Command-Left Arrow

Answer 8

Move the insertion point to the beginning of the current line.

Question 9

Command-Right Arrow

Answer 9

Move the insertion point to the end of the current line.

Question 10

Option-Left Arrow

Answer 10

Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word.

Question 11

Option-Right Arrow

Answer 11

Move the insertion point to the end of the next word.

Question 12

Shift-Command-Left Arrow

Answer 12

Select the text between the insertion point and the beginning of the current line.

Question 13

Shift-Command-Right Arrow

Answer 13

Select the text between the insertion point and the end of the current line.

Question 14

Shift-Up Arrow

Answer 14

Extend text selection to the nearest character at the same horizontal location on the line above.

Question 15

Shift-Down Arrow

Answer 15

Extend text selection to the nearest character at the same horizontal location on the line below.

Question 16

Shift-Left Arrow

Answer 16

Extend text selection one character to the left.

Question 17

Shift-Right Arrow

Answer 17

Extend text selection one character to the right.

Question 18

Option-Shift-Left Arrow

Answer 18

Extend text selection to the beginning of the current word then to the beginning of the following word if pressed again.

Question 19

Option-Shift-Right Arrow

Answer 19

Extend text selection to the end of the current word then to the end of the following word if pressed again.

Question 20

Control-A

Answer 20

Move to the beginning of the line or paragraph.

Question 21

Control-E

Answer 21

Move to the end of a line or paragraph.

Question 22

Control-F

Answer 22

Move one character forwards.

Question 23

Control-B

Answer 23

Move one character backwards.

Question 24

Control-L

Answer 24

Centre the cursor or selection in the visible area.

Question 25

Control-P

Answer 25

Move up one line.

Question 26

Control-N

Answer 26

Move down one line.

Question 27

Control-T

Answer 27

Swap the character behind the insertion point with the character in front of the insertion point.

Question 28

Recursively find file

Answer 28

find . -name “test*”

Question 29

Search history

Answer 29

Control + r

Question 30

Navi Shell Snippets

Answer 30

Control + g