Tired of pressing your arrow buttons to move around long lines in the shell? You’ll be lightning fast with these shortcuts in your toolkit.

Navigation

• Ctrl + A Go to the beginning of the line
• Ctrl + E Go to the end of the line
• Alt + F Move cursor forward one word
• Alt + B Move cursor backward one word

Cut, Delete

• Ctrl + U Clears the line before the cursor
• Ctrl + K Clear the line after the cursor
• Ctrl + W Delete the word before the cursor

Paste

• Ctrl + Y Paste whatever you cut above

Others

• Ctrl + L Clears the Screen
• Ctrl + R Search history
• Ctrl + C Kill whats running
• Ctrl + D Exit shell