Some terminal keyboard shortcuts for you as power user.
Cursor position
- [ctrl] + [a] – Go to beginning of line
- [ctrl] + [e] – Go to end of line
- [ctrl] + [xx] – Toggle between beginning and end of line
- [alt] + [arrow left] – One word left
- [alt] + [arrow right] – One word right
- [arrow left] – One character left
- [arrow right] – One character right
Command History
- [arrow up] – Previous command
- [arrow down] – Next command
- [ctrl] + [r] – Search in the command history
- [ctrl] + [g] – Stop search in command history
Edit
- [cmd] + [v] – Insert from clipboard
- [ctrl] + [c] – Interrupt input
- [ctrl] + [l] – Clear screen
- [ctrl] + [d] – Delete character under the cursor
- [ctrl] + [h] – Delete character before the cursor
- [ctrl] + [w] – Delete word under the cursor
- [crtl] + [u] – Delete the Line before the cursor
- [esc] + [t] – Swap last two words before the cursor
Terminal
- [ctrl] + [d] – Exit current terminal
- [cmd] + [q] – Exit all terminals
- [cmd] + [t] – New terminal tab
- [cmd] + [shift] + [+] – Increase font size
- [cmd] + [shift] + [-] – Decrease font size
- [cmd] + [0] – Default font size