Read in the contents of the inputrc file, and incorporate any bindings or variable assignments found there.

Abort the current editing command and ring the terminal's bell (subject to the setting of bell-style).

If the metafied character x is lowercase, run the command that is bound to the corresponding uppercase character.

Make the next character typed be metafied. This is for keyboards without a meta key. Typing `ESC f' is equivalent to typing `M-f'.

Incremental undo, separately remembered for each line.

Undo all changes made to this line. This is like executing the undo command enough times to get back to the beginning.

Perform tilde expansion on the current word.

Set the mark to the current point. If a numeric argument is supplied, the mark is set to that position.

Swap the point with the mark. The current cursor position is set to the saved position, and the old cursor position is saved as the mark.

A character is read and point is moved to the next occurrence of that character. A negative count searches for previous occurrences.

A character is read and point is moved to the previous occurrence of that character. A negative count searches for subsequent occurrences.

The value of the comment-begin variable is inserted at the beginning of the current line, and the line is accepted as if a newline had been typed. This makes the current line a shell comment.

Print all of the functions and their key bindings to the Readline output stream. If a numeric argument is supplied, the output is formatted in such a way that it can be made part of an inputrc file. This command is unbound by default.

Print all of the settable variables and their values to the Readline output stream. If a numeric argument is supplied, the output is formatted in such a way that it can be made part of an inputrc file. This command is unbound by default.

Print all of the Readline key sequences bound to macros and the strings they ouput. If a numeric argument is supplied, the output is formatted in such a way that it can be made part of an inputrc file. This command is unbound by default.

The word before point is treated as a pattern for pathname expansion, and the list of matching file names is inserted, replacing the word.

The list of expansions that would have been generated by glob-expand-word is displayed, and the line is redrawn.

Display version information about the current instance of Bash.

Expand the line as the shell does. This performs alias and history expansion as well as all of the shell word expansions (see Shell Expansions).

Perform history expansion on the current line.

Perform history expansion on the current line and insert a space (see History Interaction).

Perform alias expansion on the current line (see Aliases).

Perform history and alias expansion on the current line.

A synonym for yank-last-arg.

Accept the current line for execution and fetch the next line relative to the current line from the history for editing. Any argument is ignored.

When in vi editing mode, this causes a switch back to emacs editing mode, as if the command `set -o emacs' had been executed.