Creating Keyboard Shortcuts

List of defined commands

Several keyboard shortcuts are at our disposal. We learned about several of them in Useful Shortcuts. For example, we learned that “Ctrl+l” clears the screen and “Ctrl+a” jumps to the beginning of the line. We can use the bind -p command to see a list of all the defined commands available. It’s a long list, so let’s use less:

$ bind -p | less

Use the terminal below to practice this command.

Making our own commands

In addition to the commands already defined, we can make our own. Let’s try it out by using the bind command to map “Ctrl+t” to execute the pwd command:

$ bind '"\C-t": "pwd\n"'

After this command is executed, we press “Ctrl+t”.

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