Hdi2u S03

Navigating the command line

• Bioinformatics tools can have very many options
• They also can be combined with many others, leading to very long command-line.
• You do no want to get stuck only using arrows all the time.

Exercise

• Type the following:

that was then, this is now

Try navigating this line using the following keybindings:

• ctrl + a: go to beginning of line
• ctrl + e: go to end of line
• ctrl + w: delete current word backwards, word behind if in space
• ctrl + /: undo changes
• ctrl + x, <BACKSPACE>: search backwards for a character, here?
• ctrl + r, ?: search backwards for a character, here?
• alt + b: move backwards word-wise.
• alt + f: move backwards word-wise
• alt + d: delete current word forwards, next word if in space
• ctrl + k: delete to end of line