Keyboard Shortcuts for Bash

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
Alt + F	Move cursor forward one word on the current line
Alt + B	Move cursor backward one word on the current line
Tab	Auto-complete files and folder names

Ctrl + a   Go to the beginning of the line (Home)
Ctrl + e   Go to the End of the line (End)
Ctrl + p   Previous command (Up arrow)
Ctrl + n   Next command (Down arrow)
Alt + b    Back (left) one word
Alt + f    Forward (right) one word
Ctrl + f   Forward one character
Ctrl + b   Backward one character
Ctrl + xx  Toggle between the start of line and current cursor position
Ctrl + L   Clear the Screen, similar to the clear command
Ctrl + u   Cut/delete the line before the cursor position.
Alt + Del  Delete the Word before the cursor.
Alt + d    Delete the Word after the cursor.
Ctrl + d   Delete character under the cursor
Ctrl + h   Delete character before the cursor (Backspace)
Ctrl + w   Cut the Word before the cursor to the clipboard.
Ctrl + k   Cut the Line after the cursor to the clipboard.
Alt + t    Swap current word with previous
Ctrl + t   Swap the last two characters before the cursor (typo).
Esc  + t   Swap the last two words before the cursor.
ctrl + y   Paste the last thing to be cut (yank)
Alt + u    UPPER capitalize every character from the cursor to the end of the current word.

Alt + l   Lower the case of every character from the cursor to the end of the current word.

Alt + c   Capitalize the character under the cursor and move to the end of the word.
Alt + r   Cancel the changes and put back the line as it was in the history (revert).
ctrl + _  Undo
TAB        Tab completion for file/directory names 


For example, to move to a directory 'sample1'; Type cd sam ; then press TAB and ENTER.  type just enough characters to uniquely identify the directory you wish to open.



History:

Ctrl + r   Recall the last command including the specified character(s)
            (equivalent to : vim ~/.bash_history). 
Ctrl + p   Previous command in history (i.e. walk back through the command history)
Ctrl + n   Next command in history (i.e. walk forward through the command history)
Ctrl + s   Go back to the next most recent command.
             (beware to not execute it from a terminal because this will also launch its XOFF).

Ctrl + o   Execute the command found via Ctrl+r or Ctrl+s
Ctrl + g   Escape from history searching mode
        
Ctrl + C   Interrupt/Kill whatever you are running (SIGINT)
Ctrl + l   Clear the screen
Ctrl + s   Stop output to the screen (for long running verbose commands)
Ctrl + q   Allow output to the screen (if previously stopped using command above)

Ctrl + D   Send an EOF marker, unless disabled by an option, this will close the current shell (EXIT)
Ctrl + Z   Send the signal SIGTSTP to the current task, which suspends it.

 To return to it later enter fg 'process name' (foreground).