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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] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can use C-x C-e in bash to open the current line in $EDITOR and edit it there. Much faster than copying and pasting :)

[–] deepdive 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you :) Helps alot !!

[–] INeedMana 1 points 1 year ago

Wow! I've never heard about this.

For zsh: not mine gist to enable it