Oftentimes the CLI can be more powerful than the GUI if the latter is mostly a wrapper around the former, but that depends on the kinds of projects you use.For example, I personally mostly wanted to remap my keys, which is covered by something like xmodmap and its scripting already.for anything not inherently GUI you have bash and many projects have a decent cli for it.That said, I think there is less demand for Linux Desktop scripting for several reasons: N = job number, to list jobs, run Have you seen this? It seems to be like AutoHotkey for X11 (which is a bit of a shame I only find it now since X11 is on its way out), but I haven't used it since I switched to mostly working on CLI. Replace first occurance of abc with xyz in last command and execute it Print previously run command that BEGINS with vi Search forward starting at the current line and moving 'down' through the history as necessaryįetch the previous command from the history list, moving back in the list (same as up arrow)įetch the next command from the history list, moving forward in the list (same as down arrow)Įxecute the command found via Ctrl+r or Ctrl+s Search backward starting at the current line and moving 'up' through the history as necessary List all system all entries in your /etc/hosts file Non-incremental reverse search of history. Make lowercase from cursor to end of word Make uppercase from cursor to end of word Print the LAST ARGUMENT (ie 'vim file1.txt file2.txt' will yield 'file2.txt')Ĭapitalize the first character to end of word starting at cursor (whole word if cursor is at the beginning of word) Print all the file/folder names in the current path as parameter Move to the end of the input history, i.e., the line currently being enteredĭisplay the file/folder names in the current path as help Swap the last two characters before the cursor Paste (if you used a previous command to delete)Įxit shell (same as exit command when cursor line is empty) Where x is any character, moves the cursor backwards to the previous occurance of xĭelete the previous character before cursor Where x is any character, moves the cursor forward to the next occurance of x

Toggle between the start of line and current cursor position

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