More than 35 Keyboard Shortcuts for Terminal in Linux

Bash is the default command-line shell on most Linux distributions. The bash shell features a wide variety of keyboard shortcuts you can use. These will work in bash on any operating system. Some of them may not work if you’re accessing bash remotely through an SSH or telnet session, depending on how you have your keys mapped.

Working With Processes
Use the following shortcuts to manage running processes.

Ctrl + C	Interrupt (kill) the current foreground process running in the terminal. This sends the SIGINT signal to the process, which is technically just a request—most processes will honor it, but some may ignore it
Ctrl + Z	Suspend the current foreground process running in bash. This sends the SIGTSTP signal to the process. To return the process to the foreground later, use the fg process_name command
Ctrl + D	Close the bash shell. This sends an EOF (End-of-file) marker to bash, and bash exits when it receives this marker. This is similar to running the exit command

Controlling the Screen
The following shortcuts allow you to control what appears on the screen.

Ctrl + L	Clear the screen. This is similar to running the “clear” command
Ctrl + S	Stop all output to the screen. This is particularly useful when running commands with a lot of long, verbose output, but you don’t want to stop the command itself with Ctrl+C
Ctrl + Q	Resume output to the screen after stopping it with Ctrl+S

Moving the Cursor
Use the following shortcuts to quickly move the cursor around the current line while typing a command.

Ctrl + A Ctrl + Home	Go to the beginning of the line
Ctrl + E Ctrl + End	Go to the end of the line
Alt + B	Go left (back) one word
Ctrl + B	Go left (back) one character
Alt + F	Go right (forward) one word
Ctrl + F	Go right (forward) one character
Ctrl + XX	Move between the beginning of the line and the current position of the cursor. This allows you to press Ctrl+XX to return to the start of the line, change something, and then press Ctrl+XX to go back to your original cursor position. To use this shortcut, hold the Ctrl key and tap the X key twice

Deleting Text
Use the following shortcuts to quickly delete characters

Ctrl + D Delete	Delete the character under the cursor
Alt + D	Delete all characters after the cursor on the current line
Ctrl + H Backspace	Delete the character before the cursor

Fixing Typos
These shortcuts allow you to fix typos and undo your key presses.

Alt + T	Swap the current word with the previous word
Ctrl + T	Swap the last two characters before the cursor with each other. You can use this to quickly fix typos when you type two characters in the wrong order
Ctrl + _	Undo your last key press. You can repeat this to undo multiple times

Cutting and Pasting
Bash includes some basic cut-and-paste features.

Ctrl + Shift + C	Copy the selected text from terminal
Ctrl + Shift + V	Paste the content from clipboard
Shift + Insert	Copy selected text to clipboard and paste from the clipboard
Ctrl + W	Cut the word before the cursor, adding it to the clipboard
Ctrl + K	Cut the part of the line after the cursor, adding it to the clipboard
Ctrl + U	Cut the part of the line before the cursor, adding it to the clipboard
Ctrl + Y	Paste the last thing you cut from the clipboard. The y here stands for “yank”

Capitalizing Characters
The bash shell can quickly convert characters to upper or lower case

Alt + U	Capitalize every character from the cursor to the end of the current word, converting the characters to upper case.
Alt + L	Uncapitalize every character from the cursor to the end of the current word, converting the characters to lower case.
Alt + C	Capitalize the character under the cursor. Your cursor will move to the end of the current word.

Working With Your Command History
You can quickly scroll through your recent commands, which are stored in your user account’s bash history file

Ctrl + P Up Arrow	Go to the previous command in the command history. Press the shortcut multiple times to walk back through the history.
Ctrl + N Down Arrow	Go to the next command in the command history. Press the shortcut multiple times to walk forward through the history.
Alt + R	Revert any changes to a command you’ve pulled from your history if you’ve edited it.
Ctrl + R	Recall the last command matching the characters you provide. Press this shortcut and start typing to search your bash history for a command.
Ctrl + O	Run a command you found with Ctrl+R.
Ctrl + J	it End the Ctrl+R search
Ctrl + G	Leave history searching mode without running a command.