How to move the cursor word by word in the OS X Terminal

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Arne picture Arne · Sep 17, 2008 · Viewed 343.3k times · Source

I know the combination Ctrl+A to jump to the beginning of the current command, and Ctrl+E to jump to the end.

But is there any way to jump word by word, like Alt+←/→ in Cocoa applications does?

Answer

Kristian J. picture Kristian J. · Sep 17, 2008

Out of the box you can use the quite bizarre Esc+F to move to the beginning of the next word and Esc+B to move to the beginning of the current word.

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