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There are more
Bash features that matter.

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For instance, there is Alias. Alias
allows you to define your own commands.

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So if you would type
Alias, list is LS l,

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then you have defined your
new command, which is list.

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You can use Alias without arguments to
request a list of aliases that are

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currently set when set from the
command line. An alias is not persistent.

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If you want to make them persistent,
you need to put them in the

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ETC profile or one of the
related files. We'll talk about those later.

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Bash also works with keyboard shortcuts,
and these keyboard shortcuts make working

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with Bash a lot easier.
Control L will clear your screen.

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Control U will wipe the current command line. Control
A will move the cursor to the beginning of

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the line, and Control E is doing the
opposite. It moves to the end of the line.

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Control C is the break, it interrupts the current
process. And Control D is a generic exit command.

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Let me show
you some of this.

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That was Control L to start with. I
do it in conscious. I wasn't even thinking about

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it. Here we have Alias, which is showing
all the aliases that exist on my system.

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So when I use Alias, list is
LS L. Well then I can type

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the list command to execute the LS
L. Let's do a Control L again

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and let me use Sleep 600, which
is going to do nothing for 10

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minutes, but it will keep my
console busy. Well, I don't like that.

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So I'm going to use Control
C to quit it and echo.

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This is some text and oh boy, I forgot something. Well
then I'm going to use Ctrl A to move my cursor to

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the beginning or Control E to move my cursor to the
end. And if I change my mind and I don't want to

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run this command at all, Control U will wipe the current
command line. And that's the best shortcuts that you should know about.