Terminal Keyboard Shortcuts
Terminal keyboard shortcuts are very handy, no doubt about this, can save you a lot of time especially when your job is based on using on a daily basis the terminal window, being on your workstation or other remote terminals that you are interacting with. Mastering these terminal keys will clearly give you a huge advantage, as we said previously in terms of time and also productivity, on the same note we can also say that is a must to learn and use these shortcuts.
Terminal Keyboard Cheatsheet
Lets open now a terminal window and test all below keyboard shortcuts within our terminal window:
- Keyboard shortcut
- Short description
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- Ctrl + l
- This will clear your terminal screen
- Ctrl + b
- Move cursor one character to the left from current position
- Ctrl + f
- Move cursor one character to the right from current position
- Alt + b
- Move cursor one word to the left from current position
- Alt + f
- Move cursor one word to the right from current position
- Ctrl + a
- Move cursor to start of the line no matter where this is located
- Ctrl + e
- Move cursor to end of the line
- Ctrl + u
- Cut everything from line start up to cursor current position
- Ctrl + k
- Cut everything from the cursor to end of the line
- Alt + d
- Cut the current word after the cursor
- Ctrl + w
- Cut the current word before the cursor
- Ctrl + y
- Paste the previous cut text
- Alt + y
- Paste the second latest cut text
- Alt + Ctrl + y
- Paste the first argument of the previous command
- Alt +./_
- Paste the last argument of the previous command
- Ctrl + p
- Move to the previous line
- Ctrl + n
- Move to the next line
- Ctrl + s
- Search
- Ctrl + r
- Reverse search
- Ctrl + j
- End search
- Ctrl + g
- Abort search (restores original line)
- Alt + r
- Restores all changes made to line
- Tab
- Auto-complete a name
- Alt + ?
- List all possible completions
- Alt + *
- Insert all possible completions