how to delete all characters after cursor in shell
I want to delete all characters after cursor in putty or shell. How can i achieve this?
Every time I want to delete the complete line, I need to press delete key and that is something I don't want to do.
Finding a way to delete the line improve my speed and effieciency.
e.g
$@ java -DSTOP.PORT=8982 -DSTOP.KEY=mysecret -jar start.jar --stop
@ is my cursor position so if I have to delete the line I have to keep pressing the delete key.
Hit Ctrl k. Here are some commonly used shortcuts
CTRL Key Bound
- Ctrl + a - Jump to the start of the line
- Ctrl + b - Move back a char
- Ctrl + c - Terminate the command
- Ctrl + d - Delete from under the cursor
- Ctrl + e - Jump to the end of the line
- Ctrl + f - Move forward a char
- Ctrl + k - Delete to EOL
- Ctrl + l - Clear the screen
- Ctrl + r - Search the history backwards
- Ctrl + R - Search the history backwards with multi occurrence
- Ctrl + u - Delete backward from cursor
- Ctrl + x x - Move between EOL and current cursor position
- Ctrl + x @ - Show possible hostname completions
- Ctrl + z - Suspend/ Stop the command
ALT Key Bound
- Alt + < - Move to the first line in the history
- Alt + > - Move to the last line in the history
- Alt + ? - Show current completion list
- Alt + * - Insert all possible completions
- Alt + / - Attempt to complete filename
- Alt + . - Yank last argument to previous command
- Alt + b - Move backward
- Alt + c - Capitalize the word
- Alt + d - Delete word
- Alt + f - Move forward
- Alt + l - Make word lowercase
- Alt + n - Search the history forwards non-incremental
- Alt + p - Search the history backwards non-incremental
- Alt + r - Recall command
- Alt + t - Move words around
- Alt + u - Make word uppercase
- Alt + back-space - Delete backward from cursor
I know it's an old question, but if you like/work with vi editor, you can use:
$ set -o vi
That allows you treat the input as inside the vim editor (insert mode):
- Delete to the end of line
<ESC>D, - Edit entire command line inside a vim session
<ESC>v(exiting vim executes command) - Search in last commands
<ESC>/regexp_to_find, - Go to start of line
<ESC>0, - Insert at start of line
<ESC>I, - Change next word
<ESC>cw - Etc.
This is one of many vim tutorials.