Using Readline Functions in Bash

Conclusion

There are so many more useful Readline functions. Check out the documentation and you'll see how the Unix pioneers made do with text-only terminals very well indeed, thank you very much.

Nowadays, many of these shortcuts may not be as helpful as before, but others give you very useful shortcuts that can make life on the command line much more productive and interesting.

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