Linux Shell shortcut keys

Common

Ctrl+r: Quick Search History Command (Retrieve)

Ctrl+u: Delete entire command line text character (Unity)

Ctrl+s: Pausing a Running program (STOP)

Ctrl+q: Exit Pause (quit)

CTRL + Z: Enables tasks that are running in the terminal, running in the background (FG recovery available)

CTRL + C: Interrupt the task being performed in the terminal (complete)

Ctrl+d: Can exit terminal (drop out) in case of empty command line

Ctrl+p: Previous used History command, equivalent up arrow (Previous)

CTRL + N: The next use of the history command, equivalent to the down arrow (next)

Ctrl+[: Equivalent to the ESC key

ESC key: Display all supported terminal commands 3 times in a row

Tab: command, file name, etc. auto-complete function

Move cursor

CTRL + A: Cursor positioned at beginning of line (Ahead)

Ctrl+e: Cursor positioned at end of line (end)

CTRL+B: Cursor moves one character to the beginning of the line (backwards)

CTRL+F: Cursor moves one character to the end of the line (forwards)

Delete character

Ctrl+w: Delete the character at the beginning of the cursor

Ctrl+k: Delete the character at the end of the line at the cursor

Ctrl+h: Remove a character from the beginning of the line

Ctrl+d: Deletes a character to the end of a line

Ctrl+y: Pasting

Ctrl+t: Swap the character of the cursor and its preceding character (Turn to)

Linux Shell shortcut keys