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hot key short cut bash shell
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BruceZu commented Dec 12, 2016

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 + 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 Let’s 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 Clear the line after the cursor
Ctrl + T Swap the last two characters before the cursor
Esc + T Swap the last two words before the cursor

// current line move cursor forward
Alt + F
// current line move cursor back
Alt + B
//delete from cursor to start of word
Ctrl + w

Tab Auto-complete files and folder name

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Use Ctrl+K to delete from the cursor to the end of the line.
Use Ctrl+U to delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/269046/bash-delete-from-cursor-till-end-of-line-with-a-keyboard-shortcut

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