Bash Cheat Sheet

Below is a list of helpful bash shortcuts to boost your productivity. These commands were executed on a Debian 11 operating system.

Shortcuts

Navigation

Shortcut	Description
ctrl + a	Move cursor to beginning of the line.
ctrl + e	Move cursor to end of the line.
alt + f	Move cursor forward one word.
alt + b	Move cursor back one word.
ctrl + f	Move cursor forward one character.
ctrl + b	Move cursor back one character.

Editing

Shortcut	Description
alt + d	Delete word after the cursor.
alt + backspace	Delete word before the cursor.
ctrl + d	Delete character beneath the cursor
ctrl + h	Delete character before the cursor
ctrl + k	Cut the line after the cursor to the clipboard
ctrl + u	Cut the line before the cursor to the clipboard
alt + d	Cut the word after the cursor to the clipboard
ctrl + w	Cut the word before the cursor to the clipboard
ctrl + y	Paste the last item to be cut

History

Shortcut	Description
ctrl + r	Bring up the history search.
ctrl + g	Exit the history search.
ctrl + r	Show previous command in history.
ctrl + n	Show next command in history.

Commands

Git delete multiple branches

git branch | sed s/^..// | grep -v remainning_branch | xargs -L 1 -t -I {} git branch -D {}

If you need to keep more that one branch without being deleted, you can pass a series of items to grep portion of code using grep -v -E "branch|anotherbrach".

For instance, if you had the following branches on a project:

$ git branch
* develop
  feature-one
  local
  main
  nwe-local
  test-branch

If you want to delete all branches except for develop and main, the script you'd run is:

git branch | sed s/^..// | grep -v -E "main|develop" | xargs -L 1 -t -I {} git branch -D {}