Sunday, March 3, 2013

Some Special Characters(A-Z) Uses


Ctl-A
Moves cursor to beginning of line of text(on the commandline)
Ctl-B 
Backspace (nondestructive).
Ctl-C
Break. Terminate a foreground job
Ctl-D
Log out from a shell (similar to exit).
Ctl-E
Moves cursor to end of line of text (on the command-line).
Ctl-F
Moves cursor forward one character position(on the command-line).
Ctl-G
BEL. On some old-time teletype terminals, this would actually ring a bell.In an xterm it might beep.
Ctl-H
Rubout (destructive backspace). Erases characters the cursor backs over while  backspacing
Ctl-I
Horizontal tab.
Ctl-J
Newline (line feed). In a script, may also be expressed in octal notation -- '\012' or in hexadecimal -- '\x0a'
Ctl-K
Vertical tab.  When typing text on the console or in an xterm window, Ctl-K erases from the  character under the cursor to end of line. Within a script, Ctl-K may behave differently, as in Lee Lee Maschmeyer's example, below
Ctl-L
Formfeed (clear the terminal screen). In a terminal, this has the same effect as the  clear  command. When sent to a printer, a Ctl-L causes an advance to end of the paper sheet.
Ctl-N
Ctl-N Erases a line of text recalled from history buffer [20] (on the command-line).
Ctl-O
Issues a newline (on the command-line).
Ctl-P
Recalls last command from history buffer (on the terminal.
Ctl-Q
Resume (XON). This resumes stdin in a Ctl-R       Backwards search for text in history bu
Ctl-R
Backwards search for text in history buffer(on the command-line).
Ctl-S
Suspend (XOFF).This freezes stdin in a terminal.             
Ctl-T
Reverses the position of the character the cursor is on with the previous character(on the command-line).
Ctl-U
Erase a line of input, from the cursor backward to beginning of line. In some settings, Ctl-U erases the entire line of input, regardless of cursor position.
Ctl-X
In certain word processing programs, Cuts highlighted text and copies to clipboard.
Ctl-Y
Pastes back text previously erased (with Ctl-U or Ctl-W).
Ctl-Z
Pauses a foreground job.

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