Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)

The article covers often-overlooked shell keyboard shortcuts and line-editing tricks that work across most POSIX-compatible shells. It highlights Emacs-style Readline bindings like CTRL+W, CTRL+U/K/Y, CTRL+A/E, and ALT+B/F for efficient command-line navigation and editing. It also mentions terminal recovery commands like `reset` and `stty sane` for fixing garbled output after accidentally dumping binary data.