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List Of Useful Bash Keyboard Shortcuts

ALT key shortcuts
1. ALT+A – Go to the beginning of a line.

2. ALT+B – Move one character before the cursor.

3. ALT+C – Suspends the running command/process. Same as CTRL+C

4. ALT+D – Closes the empty Terminal (I.e it closes the Terminal when there is nothing typed). Also deletes all chracters after the cursor.

5. ALT+F – Move forward one character.

6. ALT+T – Swaps the last two words.

7. ALT+U – Capitalize all characters in a word after the cursor.

8. ALT+L – Uncaptalize all characters in a word after the cursor.

9. ALT+R – Undo any changes to a command that you have brought from the history if you’ve edited it.

10. ALT+. (note the dot at the end) – Use the last word of the previous command.

CTRL key shortcuts
1. CTRL+A – Quickly move to the beginning of line.

2. CTRL+B – To move backward one character.

3. CTRL+C – Stop the currently running command

4. CTRL+D – Delete one character backward.

5. CTRL+E – Move to the end of line

6. CTRL+F – Move forward one character

7. CTRL+G – Leave the history searching mode without running the command.

8. CTRL+H – Delete the characters before the cursor, same as BASKSPACE.

9. CTRL+J – Same as ENTER/RETURN key.

10. CTRL+K – Delete all characters after the cursor.

11. CTRL+L – Clears the screen and redisplay the line.

12. CTRL+M – Same as CTRL+J or RETURN.

13. CTRL+N – Display next line in command history.

14. CTRL+O – Run the command that you found using reverse search i.e CTRL+R.

15. CTRL+P – Displays the previous line in command history.

16. CTRL+R – Searches the history backward (Reverse search).

17. CTRL+S – Searches the history forward.

18. CTRL+T – Swaps the last two characters.

19. CTRL+U – Delete all characters before the cursor (Kills backward from point to the beginning of line).

20. CTRL+V – Makes the next character typed verbatim

21. CTRL+W – Delete the words before the cursor.

22. CTRL+X – Lists the possible filename completions of the current word.

23. CTRL+XX – Move between start of command line and current cursor position (and back again).

24. CTRL+Y –  Retrieves last item that you deleted or cut.

25. CTRL+Z – Stops the current command.  You can resume it with fg in the foreground or bg in the background.

26. CTRL+[ – Equivalent to ESC key.

Miscellaneous
1. !! – Repeats the last command.

2. ESC+t – Swaps the last two words.