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Is there a way to jump to an earlier part of a command line command in the Mac Terminal?

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Mar 15, 20262440 views
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I'll often find myself writing out long commands in the bash shell - things with many arguments, web addresses, routes, etc and so on. Every so often I will realize I forgot to, say, put my "bundle exec" at the beginning of the command, or misspelled something, or forgot quotes. Or something as sim…

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Fix for: Is there a way to jump to an earlier part of a command line command in the Mac Terminal?

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In addition to ^A and ^E, you can do Esc-b to jump back one word Esc-f to jump forward one word Ctrl-b to move back one character Ctrl-f to move forward one character See the bash manual for commands for moving.

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