How to move FAST in the Linux Terminal 

Linux User: types `ls` out of nowhere just to feel relaxed

John:Delete a line with ctrl + u Me: oh wow that is amaz^c clear

This is awesome! Thank you so much! I have used terminator at some basic level before (didn't really put the time and customisation into it). I'm now a tmux user, but I already have a feeling that you have just converted me with this video lol. You're the man, John!

OMG!!! I just realised I have been watching your videos for Months and I only decided to Subscribe today. Thank you for the awesome videos and lessons you continue to provide. It's amazing how much you provide. Thank you John Hammond and continue the Awesome work.

This tutorial is so helpful and kind. Thanks for making those

Ctrl+R allows you to search history, Ctrl+S lets you go in the opposite direction Me (an idiot): wait I can search through my future commands??

I really like recent videos that you have been uploading. Super useful and interesting to watch.

This guy made my day with only one video. I learned many things. I am a tmux user, but terminator has his own strength. I think knowing both will be a big profit. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Simple things making life easier. Thanks John! Always appreciate the content.

i really like this video style! plz bring more of it!

This is awesome take! I can feel validated with all my choices that I've made durin these years sitting in front of the computer.

This channel is an absolute goldmine, thanks !

Liked this m8. I'm sure I won't use terminator but I love when someone shows that things can be done in a different way than you're accustomed. It's all about options and you're a great content creator, thank you!

Left CTRL+A Left CTRL+E are much better than Home and End keys because you can always use just your left hand on all keyboards. Great video! Just something cool to know.

Thanks man, big fan here. Advent of Cyber was awesome btw, love your content!

ctrl+a to go to the beginning of a line ctrl+e to go to the end ctrl+w to delete a word to the left of the cursor ctrl+z to background a process fg-enter to bring it back to the foreground 🤘🤠 edit: oh and !! to rerun the last entered command so if you needed to sudo a command but forgot to, instead of retyping it, or pressing up then ctrl+a and typing sudo, you can just sudo !!

I really loved your video!!! It blew my mind and I loved it because terminator is a such amazing tool!!! Thank you for share it!

Love this John! Super helpful tips

Cool workflow! Areas for improvement: tiling wm, vim keybindings for navigation, vimium in browser for keyboard driven browser navigation (especially for navigating to previous page), and auto-completing shell (i.e. zsh or fish) :)

Thanks for this great video John🥳

Thanks! some handy tips there, had no idea all that stuff was there to be found

I was very happy you mentioned home and end. Thanks.

Great and useful video, thanks! I am curious if you could do a similar one to show what tools you use daily and where do you place them. John you do amazing job! Cheers!

The mentioned muscle memory is my main storage for shortcuts. "You can hit CTRL- ..." - °oO(What?!?) - "... to " - °oO(Ah, THAT one.) And then it took me five more seconds to imagine the keyboard and what I use to press ... it's been exactly that.

I've been looking for something like this for ages cause tmux simply wasn't for me and i "was forced" to use simple terminal and things sometimes can be pretty messy but dude This is a game changer 😂 Hope every video will bring so much information and usefull things🤩 Btw the "long" format where there's the uncutted version of john thinking and going through all the mental process would be awesome for having a better understanding on how to approach a problem and how to understand the right path Love the content, keep it up MATE! (OK THIS JOKE WASN'T FUNNY BUT COME ON)

Nice Video, your videos are so helpful and amazing !!!

Love your videos, man! Unsolicited comments on video composition -- lower ISO/white balance slightly so that your Nano Leaves aren't over-exposed, then reduce light on background. Having darker background will provide better contrast and allow you to stand out from your background more in the video. Also (extra nitpick-y), please center the leaves and or use a different pattern to give the background more flavor. Also, I loved your outro! Keep up the good work, man. Best wishes.

Thanks for the video!

Very informative video, thank you!

Great video! Thank you sir!

Thanks John !

Man, I've been using tmux for a while now because that's what THM pushes on a couple tutorial rooms and I am SO glad your video made it to me. Been using Terminator only a day and I just can't understand why anyone would prefer tmux but maybe I'm missing something :/

I didn't know about Ctrl+R and Ctrl+U, those are couple of real time savers there, thanks!

okay, i buy it! 😀😀 Thanks for all your good Stuff! ❤❤

One thing that about ctrl-s key combination is, that under some emulation mode (actually it might apply to most out-of-the-box configurations) ctrl-s is captured by the emulation, before the shell (or readline), and work as shortcut to completely freeze the buffer. If that happens don't panic and just press ctrl-q and you should be good to go.

Another great video dude!

i need this in my life

great video! worthy of saving as a cheetsheet. Have just downloaded the terminator and played around. It's powerful and highly customizable tool. Also i'd like to recommend to you guys the guake, which i'm currently sticking with, and, which summons the terminal on the top of every window with only one key stroke, without blocking your current work. It's also a highly customizable shell application (am i right with the concept?) written in python. And i've just learnt not only that alt + backspace deletes one word before the cursor, the ctrl + del actually deletes one word after the cursor. So i don't need to remember the emacs-style short cuts which (to me) sometimes makes completley nonsense 🤣

Terminator is the best thing I have never head of. Thank you!

sir you are incredible thank you so much sir for make our work easier

Ctrl + U is so helpful!! Whenever you're typing your password, say when using sudo apt update and you mistype a character, instead of holding backspace to delete the entire password, just hit Ctrl + U.

Thank you. This tutorial is beneficial !!!!!!

My favorite terminal emulator (it can do more than that too!) is MobaXterm. You can save multiple sessions for the different connections you use often, and I find the sftp sidebar very helpful when working on different projects.

Put "set -o vi" in your .bashrc if you're already comfortable with Vim navigation. Much more intuitive when navigating the command line.

Omgggggg dude you are f..kng awesome....... love your videos

Your head absolutely looked Photoshopped into the thumbnail, and it's cracking me up.

Are you spying on my mind? This video is all abt wat I was thinking since few days after regularly watching ur videos and walkthroughs.

Another shortcut is using "alt + ." for previous arguments. IMO terminator is better for the splitting and various actions John showed but tmux shines where you may need to keep alive ssh connections and other sorts of things.

I genuinely need this

Some keycombo's that I use all the time: * CTRL-A to go to the start of the line, instead of pressing the Home key. * CTRL-E to go to the end of the line, instead of the End key. * Use CTRL-P to go to your previous used command, Ctrl-N to go to the next one. The up and down arrow-keys are great when you only have single-line commands, but it gets finicky when you have multi-line commands. * CTRL-L clears the screen. * CTRL-W deletes the word before the cursor (alternative to ALT-Backspace). * CTRL-Y to paste back words or a line that you just removed. * CTRL-U to delete everything before the cursor (as mentioned in the video) * Alt-. (ALT-dot) inserts previous arguments/commands behind the cursor. This is great for example when you want to quickly run two commands on the same files. One of my favorites! * Typing a double exclamation-mark like this !! will stand for the last run command. I use this a lot when I forgot to run a command with root privileges. I.e. Let's say I run "pacman -Syu" first, which updates your packages on Arch-based systems. It will nag me that I don't have permission to do that. After that, I simply run "sudo !!", which will be interpreted as "sudo pacman -Syu".

This is THE video, I was looking for. 😅

There is something that I found out by accident: I am using zsh and kitty. Type a command and maybe you remember that you need to run a command before that but you don't want to remove the already typed out command. press [ctrl] + [q] Then it will clear the command and retain it in the background, Run the command that you need, then the previous command that you deleted will be there for you to run.

Thanks I'm running tmux on my Android 11. With Kali and still learning. It helps

The one thing I'd add to make this a perfect video, is aliases, which dramatically lower a user's keystrokes.. in the "~/" directory, type "sudo nano .bashrc" In this file the syntax is quite simplistic, "alias=command", here's how to make a permanent alias: test="sudo apt-cache show apache2" (CTRL+X, Y, save file) If the alias doesn't work immediately, then do the "source ~/.bashrc" command. Example: command: "apt-cache show apache2" alias: "test" Both give out the same result with fewer keystrokes.

you're videos are really practical

If you want to move fast through the filesystem, I recommend FZF. You can move directly to a folder just by typing its name (from anywhere) and do stuff like type "rockyou" and have FZF automatically insert the full path to it.

John you are a hero!

You should do a vid on your setup. Very curious to see how all of that runs just off your laptop

While using arrow key combos is great for ease of memorization, they force you to take your hands off home row, then feel your way back, which is inefficient. Conversely, Tmux’s equivalents, are two-key combos and non-intuitive (Ctrl-B%, Ctrl-B”). But once muscle memory has set in, keeping your hands on home row is great for efficiency. Ditto Home, End, etc. - anything that pulls your hands off home row is inefficient. If you’re a BASH user, learning BASH keyboard shortcuts is also worthwhile to avoid having to reach for Home, End, etc. I’ve also swapped my Ctrl and CapsLock, and changed the Tmux cmd prefix to Ctrl-A. Both increase efficiency.

Great information. I've been using Linux for sometime but I don't no everything but love learn how get VPN connection to work in Linux .

For anyone not using Linux but got here by chance, some of these are usable in Windows too (and text editing in general) Home: Jump to first character (might be weird sometimes as it jumps to top of page instead) End: Jump to last character (similar problem) Ctrl + Backspace: Delete one word (from current location to symbol/space before that word) Ctrl + Delete: Delete one word to right (similar to top) Ctrl + A: Select all characters Cmd/Window + Direction key: Snap window/ resize window (works differently but function exist) Personally I never knew Terminator exist, definitely need to try it out (Vimium exists for firefox for less mouse usage btw if anyone interested)

This is gold!! 🙏

ctrl-a and ctrl-e instead of home/end. ctrl-k to cut to buffer, ctrl-y to paste. Also works in basically every single text box in macOS that is native.

Nice one cheers dude

Great video more like this!! can you put a couple of the resources on your video description next time?

Just started using terminator recently and I love it

I used terminator to get my OSCP. It's nice when enumerating to have multiple tools running at once

Great video, thanks John. I am curious how you move in and out of your various VM's (e.g. linux and windows)? Seen you do this a number of times in your other videos and was curious how you are doing that.

On tmux, you can use mouse mode and won't have to worry about text from the right/left vertical window being accidentally copied

What a great video!

oow i like the ctrl+shift+z i never thought to use that. NICE!!

Best Man! Searched for a way to delete a whole word and remembered ur video. Rewatched it and **boom** there is the solution

Good video, but I still think TMUX is better 😛

gr8 content, as always.

Excelet video.Tillix do the same of Terminator( I used to use it some time ago), but its just a matter of personal choice. Now I using tmux with any terminal, but I have some drawbacks , specially when I debugging some program in gdb. By the way I found this CheetSheet a long time . My adivice is print and paste in front of you. I pasted mine in my laptop, below the keyboard.

John, you said that there is scripting to open up terminator panes through a script. Say I wanted an automated script that opens one pane and runs a nmap scan, one opens a nikto scan, and one doing dirbuster. All launching from a ./myscript... I really think making a tutorial on that would be SUPER useful to automate things. :D P.S. Love the new outro. :P Can't wait until you get your own intro like Network Chuck. :P

Cool quick video. The KDE default terminal "Konsole" has the same capabilities as shown. It goes very well together with "yakuake"!

5:50 Tmux will not select from another panes when you use the mouse for selection

tanks for terminator, love ability to type in multiple term in same time like when I want to ssh to one server multiple times

Super Good Video

John, thanks for the vid, still waiting for the sublime text cheat sheet video.

for you vim fans out there, you can use vim key bindings at the command prompt is you add "set -o vi" to your .bashrc

Thanks very for your vidz and work... i ask myself this too... also... double thanks

that joke at the start :) - you almost had me

7:17 If your kb doesn't have the thing John said, and you don't want to move you hand to home, you can use "ctrl+a" and "ctrl+e" to go to the start and the end of line respectively. This and many shortcuts are similar to the shortcuts in emacs so if you have used that before you can try to text some other (non macro) shortcuts.

I'll have to remember !*, super useful! fc is another command that changes lives (fix command), it brings up your default editor with the last command and when you save and quit it runs.

Heh. I remember back in the seventies, how confused I was when someone referred to the exclamation as bang. I love how that vernacular hasn't changed over the decades, and probably won't for the foreseeable future.

I spent all this time learning the cryptic Tmux navigation thing......then I see this, lol. My brain cannot hold the endless shortcuts with all the software and utilities I use.

Nice video! But you should be using KeyCastr to show us which keys you're hitting and when. Keep it up!

A great compliment to ^u is ^y. I often find myself accidentally about to skip a step, at which point I ^u to clear the line run the missing step(s), and ^y to bring me back to where I was.

I am a M$ Windows user mainly, but I work in IT so occasionally have to work on remote linux servers. I am relatively inexperienced compared to many. Today I was working on a server and I can see how Terminator (or tmux) would have been useful… I was working in mysql, bash, and also wanted to keep an eye (tail -f) on access and error logs, so that’s four windows I could potentially have open at once… I ended up using at most two putty windows and just, for example, closing out of mysql to run something on the command line. As a windows user what would you recommend to me for multitasking on remote linux server(s) instead of putty? bearing in mind I don’t do that sort of thing regularly.

Great video my man. What do you think of zsh btw? I switched to zsh 2 days ago. Was using bash since I switched to Pop. Take a look at zsh.

Man for this I love my Konsole terminal

Legend!

Tmux (and Screen) are primarily for *servers* where there is no Terminator or GNOME Terminal because there is no GUI. On your own laptop you can just open a new tab in your preferred terminal emulator.

Okay so you convinced me to use terminator xD

For emacs users: Bash shortcuts are emacs compatible (AFAIK - I'm only familiar with neovim)

I like Tmux but always had issues with copying and pasting from the terminal to a browser or any other app outside of Tmux. I understand there's more than one clipboard in Linux but as a beginner, it's not very intuitive especially if you are new to Linux.

Please make a set up video 🙏

Thanks John for introducing Terminator, How do you detach and attach a process so that it continue running even after exiting Terminator?