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How can I move around the bash commandline efficiently?

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So I use the up in my shell (Bash on OSX or Ubuntu, mostly) but some of the time I know that I want the stuff after the cursor's current location. Is there any way to have the line I'm on complete with the line above? Hitting up and then left is annoying. Any other tricks would be cool too, except …

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mkdir /where/the/hell/is/that/thing

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You should read through man bash on your system, particularly the section on Readline, as this is bash's interactive input mechanism. The Bash manual at gnu.org has a nice section on Commandline Editing that will help fill in some of the gaps. By de…

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