The equivalent of “Home” and “End” key on GNU bash
On Windows XP’s command prompt (cmd.exe), we can use the keys Home to move the cursor to the start of the line and End for the end of the line. I’ve been baffled a long time why Linux’s terminal bash don’t behave the same. Instead they spit the tilde (~) to the screen.
It turns out that we need to use Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E respectively. Linux command line interface has just become more usable for me :).
Perhaps you have other favorite shortcut keys?
Tags: bash, cli, command line interpreter, Linux, terminal