[Gllug] bash / go to beginning of line

[Dan Kolb]

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On Tuesday 19 Feb 2002 11:17 am, Paul Brazier wrote:
> In bash I'm used to pressing "Home" to get to the beginning of the line.
> On my Debian server this doesn't seem to work but gives me some other
> characters (I think ^$ or something).
> The bash version is 2.x and the Home key works OK in vim.
> Is this standard for Debian? Is it bash doing this or something else
> like the keyboard setup on the machine?

Try ^A - that should get you to the beginning of the line, unless you're 
running under screen.

Dan
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