Content Summary : I t’s well known that typing in a command at theshell prompt of an X terminal or a console oftenproduces more rapid results that a whole raft of mouse clicks in a GUI application. With the arrowkeys, it’s possible to retrieve and edit commandsalready entered from the History – the store for usedcommands – and with a Return, send them on theirway again. The Tab key, for adding to commands andfile names in the bash, is also part of the generaleducation of a Linux user. In most cases, that’s as far as it goes. By the time you’ve spent five minutes digging around with upand down arrows for an old command, which itwould have been quicker to type in afresh, you startwondering if the shell has any more shortcuts tooffer.