how to move word by word on command line

pbsrinivas · #1 (**permalink**) 11-23-2007

Hey All,

On commad promt of a shell..

How can we move our cursor word by word.

Like Ctrl+A takes to the starting of the command...

Any shortcut like that..?

Thanks
pbsrinivas

radoulov · #2 (**permalink**) 11-23-2007

With bash:

esc+f : move forward a word

esc+b : move backward a word

Otherwise:

set -o vi and use vi commands: w b etc ...

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