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Bash Terminal Shortcuts

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This is a short list of helpful terminal keyboard shortcuts that I recently came across in a Udemy class I'm going through


  1. ctrl + L - Clears the terminal
  2. ctrl + D - Closes the terminal. Same as the exit command
  3. ctrl + A - Returns cursor to the beginning of the terminal line
  4. ctrl + E - Move the cursor to the end of the line
  5. ctrl + U - Cuts everything before the cursor. This is a great way to clear the line if you’ve written something that you want to delete
  6. ctrl + C - Stops the current command
  7. ctrl + Z - Puts the current running program to sleep
  8. ctrl + alt + T - Opens a new terminal