Bash Keyboard Shortcuts by oguzkonya

Ctrl + e

go to the end of the command line

Ctrl + u

delete from cursor to the start of the command line

Ctrl + y

paste word or text that was cut using one of the deletion shortcuts (such as the one above) after the cursor

Alt + b

move backward one word (or go to start of word the cursor is currently on)

Alt + d

delete to end of word starting at cursor (whole word if cursor is at the beginning of word)

Alt + l

make lowercase from cursor to end of word

Ctrl + f

move forward one character

Ctrl + d

delete character under the cursor

Ctrl + t

swap character under cursor with the previous one

Ctrl + s

stops the output to the screen (for long running verbose command)

Ctrl + c

terminate the command

Ctrl + g

escape from history searching mode

Ctrl + n

next command in history (i.e. walk forward through the command history)

!blah

run the most recent command that starts with ‘blah’ (e.g. !ls)

!$

the last word of the previous command (same as Alt + .)

!*

the previous command except for the last word (e.g. if you type ‘find some_f­ile.txt /‘, then !* would give you ‘find some_f­ile.txt‘)