Shell Shortcuts
May 24, 2019
1 min read
Getting good at using a command terminal and distancing yourself from GUIs is part of the rite of passage of becoming a programmer and has been something I’ve taken at a slow pace. Here are a few neat tricks I’ve learned when I joined Limejump.
My co-worker Aaron pointed me to the neat git lg
alias that displays a coloured graphical log of the history of a repo, including fancy branching.
git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit"
A few more shortcuts I’ve learned:
-
Ctrl+U
deletes the current line -
Ctrl+K
deletes to the right of your cursor -
Ctrl+A
jumps to the beginning of the line -
Ctrl+E
jumps to the end of the line -
!$
substitutes as the last argument of your previous command -
!!
repeats your last command