2008-01-20

Bashing the linux terminal [Did You Know?]

by Anoop Engineer 2 comments




Did you know


  • that you can jump to your home directory from any location by simply typing
    cd

    and pressing enter?

  • that you can easily create backup of a file using
    cp /location/filename{,.bak}


  • That you can copy and paste text in terminal using Ctrl + Shift + C and Ctrl + Shift + V?

  • That you can search for previously typed command using Ctrl + R and typing the first few letters of the command?

  • That you can see a list of all commands typed into terminal using the history command and clear it using history -c ?

Comments 2 comments
DaveL said...

One I find quite useful is Ctrl + l. This clears the screen.

Anonymous said...

Hey and you can move to the previous directory using cd -
Quite a useful command that I use often :)

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