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Using the Terminal keybindings with bash on macOS

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Mar 15, 202688158 views
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I have been trying to learn the keyboard shortcuts for the shell on macOS, but when I tried using ALT+B, it did not work. How do you discover, configure and use keybindings in the shell? Any cheatsheets would be helpful.

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Fix for: Using the Terminal keybindings with bash on macOS

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Mac OS X's terminal is BASH, here's some BASH shortcuts: The one you are looking for is Ctrl + H. (This is the same as hitting the backspace key) If you are looking for an escape character to go back one character, you are looking for . As in:

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