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So, who knew that a lot of the keyboard shortcuts you miss in windows and mac are actually possible in the linux command line too. This digg story links to a great article on Bash shortcuts. Mac users and other SSH users, if the alt shortcuts don’t work, try hitting escape instead (don’t hold it down).
My favorites:
Ctrl + a – Jump to the start of the line
Ctrl + e – Jump to the end of the line
Ctrl + l – Clear the screen
Alt + ? – Show current completion list
“2T” means Press TAB twice:
2T – All available commands(common)
$2T – All Sys variables
/2T – Entire directory structure including Hidden ones

Extra tip:
In mac terminal, open terminal > window settings, and choose emulation. Choose ‘option click to position cursor,’ and click ‘use settings as defaults.’ Now when you hold down option and click, your cursor jumps to where you clicked! No more repetitive arrow keying!

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