[ILUG-BOM] Word Boundaries in Bash

[Philip S Tellis]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Rakesh Tiwari wrote:

> press [Alt-Backspace] it deletes one word at a time.
> so
> $ ping www.yahoo.com[A - <-]
> will give you
> $ ping www.yahoo.
> 
> There are a variety of available shortcuts in bash.
> But i dont know how to create my own :-(

man bash.  There is a section on readline.  You have to edit inputrc to
create your own shortcuts.

Philip

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