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[SOLVED] What's an easy way to edit a multiline bash command? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by deepdive to c/[email protected]

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Hello there :)

As far as I know (searched through the web), editing/navigating a multiline in bash is not possible and opening nano, pasting and editing is to much friction I want to get rid off.

Do you have any way to speed up the process?

example of multiline:

echo \
"deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \
"$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

Thank you :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use the emacs shortcuts to navigate quickly, jump forward or backwards over words or to the start or end of a line.

[–] deepdive 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey thank you :) I didn't knew these shortcuts where called emacs ! As @taaz said Ctrl+x Ctrl-e is probably the best I will get.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ctrl-A (jump to beginning of line)
Ctrl-E (jump to end of line)
Ctrl-W (delete word)
Alt-F (jump one word forward)
Alt-B (jump one word back)

These get me most of the way around.

It also depends on your terminal emulator. For instance on my Mac I've mapped the above to the typical keybinds (alt-left, alt-right, ctrl-backspace)

[–] deepdive 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you :) My question was maybe a bit confusing (not native :( ) and yes I know those EMACs shortcuts to navigate around :). It was relate to how to navigate a multiline in a copy/pasted command in the shell. The solution is (even if it wasn't what I expected) to Ctrl-x Ctrl-e, this opens an editor with my copied command. This is one more step, but it's elgant and takes away the fritction from opening nano myself !

Thank you for your contribution !