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Cursor movement

• CTRL+A - Move cursor to the beginning of a line.
• CTRL+E - Move cursor to the end of the line.
• CTRL+F - Move cursor one character forward; same as right arrow key.
• CTRL+B - Move cursor one character backward; same as left arrow key.
• ALT+F - Move cursor forward one word.
• ALT+B - Move cursor backward one word.
• CTRL+L - Clear the screen; similar to clear

Modifying text

• CTRL+D - Delete the character at cursor location.
• CTRL+T - Transpose the character at the cursor location with the one preceding it.
• ALT+T - Transpose the word at cursor location with the one preceding it.
• ALT+L - Convert the characters from the cursor location to the end of the word to lowercase.
• ALT+U - Convert the characters from the cursor location to the end of the word to uppercase.

Cutting and pasting (Killing and yanking)

• CTRL+K - Kill text from the cursor location to the end of line.
• CTRL+U - Kill text from the cursor location to the beginning of the line.
• ALT+D - Kill text from the cursor location to the end of the current word.
• ALT+BACKSPACE - Kill text from the cursor location to the beginning of the current word. If the cursor is at the beginning of a word, kill the previous word.
• CTRL+Y - Yank text from the kill-ring and insert it at the cursor location.

Completion

• TAB - You can use TAB to autocomplete your commands.
• ALT+? or TABx2 - Display a list of possible completions. On most systems, you can also do this by pressing the tab key a second time, which is much easier.
• ALT+* - Insert all possible completions. This is useful when you want to use more than one possible match.

History

• history - This command is used to check the command line history.
• !<historyLineNumber> - Repeat the command on that line in history. Example: !72
• CTRL+R - This will change command line prompt to reverse incremental search, you can search for any previous commands and press enter to enforce the found command.
• ctrl+O - Execute the current item in the history list and advance to the next one. This is handy if you are trying to re-execute a sequence of commands in the history list.

History Expansion

• !! - Repeat the last command. It is probably easier to press the up arrow and enter. You can also write something and use !! to append the command with what you wrote, useful when you forget to write sudo. Example: sudo !!
• !number - Repeat history list item number.
• !string - Repeat last history list item starting with string. [DON'T USE]
• !?string - Repeat last history list item containing string. [DON'T USE]

script

• This command is used to record an entire shell session.
• Usage: script filePath
• To end the session use CTRL+D or close the terminal.
• Example:
  • script ~/Desktop/session.file