Further shortcuts:
Ctrl-L | Cleans the screen |
Ctrl-Y | Pastes back the stuff erased by Ctrl-K or Ctrl-U |
Ctrl-C | Aborts a application |
Ctrl-Z | Suspend a application. Resume it again by fg (resume in foreground) and bg (resume in background). Use jobs if you have multiple suspended applications and use fg %# (where # is the job number) to get it back on screen or end it with kill %# . |
Ctrl-D | is same as typing exit |
Pos1 | like Ctrl-A |
End | like Ctrl-E |
Ctrl-R | Search terminal history |
Ctrl-G | Exit searching terminal history |
Some of the shortcuts are also recognized by other applications, like Ctrl-U on Ubuntu’s graphical login screen.