Bash Keyboard Shortcuts
Cursor
| control + a | Move to the start of the current line |
| control + b | Move backward a character |
| control + e | Move to the end of the current line |
| control + f | Move forward a character |
| control + n | Move ‘forward’ through the history list, fetching the previous command |
| control + p | Move ‘back’ through the history list, fetching the previous command |
| alt + b | Move back to the start of the current or previous word |
| alt + f | Move forward to the end of the next word |
Processes
| control + c | Kill the command you just ran |
| control + l | Clear the screen |
| control + d | Send an EOF marker, unless disabled by an option, this will close the current shell (EXIT) |
Editing
| control + l | Clear the screen and redraw the current line, leaving the current line at the top of the screen |
| alt + delete | Delete the Word behind the cursor position |
| alt + d | Delete the word after the cursor position |
| control + d | Delete character under the cursor |
| control + h | Delete character in front of the cursor |
| control + w | Cut the word behind the cursor |
| control + k | Cut the line in front of the the cursor |
| control + u | Cut everything before the cursor |
| alt + t | Drag the word before point past the word after point, moving point past that word as well |
| control + t | Drag the character before the cursor forward over the character at the cursor, moving the cursor forward as well |
| escape + t | Swap the last two words before the cursor |
| control + y | Paste the last cut string |
| alt + c | Capitalize the character under the cursor and move to the end of the word |
| alt + r | Undo all changes made to this line |
| control + _ | Undo |
| tab | Auto-complete the name of files and directories |
History
| control + r | Search backward starting at the current line and moving 'up' through the history as necessary |
| control + p | Move back through the history list, fetching the previous command |
| control + n | Move forward through the history list, fetching the next command |
| control + s | Search forward starting at the current line and moving ‘down’ through the history as necessary |
| control + o | Execute the current line |
| control + g | Abort the current command and play the alert sound |