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Creating Keyboard Shortcuts

A number of keyboard shortcuts are at your disposal. You learned about several of them in ​Useful Shortcuts​. For example you learned that Ctrl+l clears the screen, and Ctrl+a jumps to the beginning of the line. Use the bind -p command to see a list of all the defined commands available. It’s a long list, so use less:

$ bind -p | less
"\C-g": abort
"\C-x\C-g": abort
"\e\C-g": abort
"\C-j": accept-line
"\C-m": accept-line
...

In addition to the ones already defined, you can make your own. Try it out by using the bind command to map Ctrl+t to execute the pwd command:

$ bind '"\C-t": "pwd\n"'

Note a couple things about this. First, you need single quotes around the keybinding definition. ...