Bash Tips and Tricks

Hi friends most of the professionals work on different linux  flavours, this keyboard shortcut will be handy for them and will be updating if i find any and let me know if we can add something to this list of shortcuts.

BASH SHORT CUT COMMANDS
Esc + T	Swap the last two   words before the cursor
Ctrl + A	Go to the beginning   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.
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 + T	Swap the last two   characters before the cursor
Ctrl + E	Go to the end of the   line you are currently typing on
Ctrl + K	Clear the line after   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 + Y	to paste it (as in delete and   copy) all text in front of the cursor
Esc + .	To paste the argument of previous command

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