- Ctrl + A: Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on
- Ctrl + E: Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on
- Ctrl + F: Forward one character.
- Ctrl + B: Backward one character.
- Meta + F: Move cursor forward one word on the current line
- Meta + B: Move cursor backward one word on the current line
- Ctrl + P: Previous command entered in history
- Ctrl + N : Next command entered in history
- Ctrl + L: Clears the screen, similar to the clear command
- Ctrl + U : Clears the line before the cursor position. If you are at the end of the line, clears the entire line.
- Ctrl + H : Same as backspace
- Ctrl + R: Lets you search through previously used commands
- Ctrl + C : Kill whatever you are running
- Ctrl + D: Exit the current shell
- Ctrl + Z: Puts whatever you are running into a suspended background process. fg restores it.
- Ctrl + W : Delete the word before the cursor
- Ctrl + K: Kill the line after the cursor
- Ctrl + Y : Yank from the kill ring
- Ctrl + _: Undo the last bash action (e.g. a yank or kill)
- Ctrl + T: Swap the last two characters before the cursor
- Meta + T: Swap the last two words before the cursor
- Tab: Auto-complete files and folder names