Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
93 lines (61 loc) · 3.84 KB

Ubuntu Keyboard Shortcuts.md

File metadata and controls

93 lines (61 loc) · 3.84 KB
Raw

➤ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR UBUNTU:-

  1. Ctrl + Shift + N => New terminal window This shortcut can be used to open a new terminal window. For this to work, you should already be on the terminal window.

  2. Ctrl + Shift + T => New terminal tab If you use above combination, you can open terminal tab on same window.

  3. Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Z => Kill the current process If you are running any application through the terminal, you can kill it by using the above combination.

  4. Ctrl + R => Reverse search If you are working in the IT industry or you are a college student, many times the same command repeats. To search previously entered command, we can use above combination.

  5. Ctrl + U => Delete line This shortcut will delete the whole line before the cursor.

  6. Ctrl + W => Delete the word This shortcut will delete the whole word before the cursor.

  7. Ctrl + K => Delete the word This shortcut will delete the whole line after the cursor.

  8. Ctrl + Y => Undo erased content If you have mistakenly deleted some content using Ctrl + U, Ctrl + W or Ctrl + K and now you want to undo the change. You can do so by using the above combination.

  9. Ctrl + L => Clear console This is similar to clear command used to clear the console.

  10. Ctrl + Shift + C => Copy This shortcut is used to copy the selected content.

  11. Ctrl + Shift + V => Paste the content from the clipboard This shortcut is used to paste the content copied in the clipboard.

  12. Alt + F => Move forward This combination is used to move one word forward. Alternatively, we can use the Ctrl + right arrow to do so.

  13. Alt + B => Move one word backward This combination is used to move one word backward. Alternatively, we can use the Ctrl + left arrow to do so.

  14. Arrow Up / Down => Browse commands To go through the previously executed commands, we can use up or down arrow keys.

  15. Alt + D => Delete line This is similar to the Ctrl + U, except it removes line after cursor.

  16. Shift + PgUp/PgDn => Scroll through console We can use the above combination to scroll up or scroll down through the console.

  17. Ctrl + PgUp => Switch to left tab We have seen we can use the Ctrl + Shift + T to open a new terminal tab. To move to the left tab, we can use the above shortcut.

  18. Ctrl + PgDn => Switch to right tab Similarly, we can use above shortcut to move to right tab.

  19. Ctrl + Shift + PgUp => Move current tab to left We can use the above shortcut to move the current tab to left.

  20. Ctrl + Shift + PgDn => Move current tab to right We can use the above shortcut to move the current tab to right.

  21. Ctrl + D => Close terminal This combination is used to close the current tab. If there is only one tab, it’ll close the terminal window.

  22. Ctrl + P => Previous executed command We can go through the previously executed sequence of commands using the above shortcut.

  23. Ctrl + N => Next executed command We can go through the next executed sequence of commands using the above shortcut.

  24. Ctrl + J => Enter

  25. Ctrl + Alt + T => Open terminal

  26. Ctrl + Shift + Q => Close all This will close all tabs on the current terminal window. This will not close the other open terminal windows.

  27. Super + RowUp => Maximize This is used to maximize the terminal window.

  28. Super + RowDown => Minimize This is used to minimize the terminal window.

  29. Ctrl + Shift + F => Find Similar to Ctrl + F on any text editor, we can use the above shortcut to find through the terminal console.

  30. Alt + C => Capitalizes the word next to the cursor and move to end of the word For Example: Suppose a word hangout and cursor is before hangout, the above shortcut will capitalize ‘h’ of hangout and go to the end of the word.

  31. Use of Tab => To get suggestions We can enter a partial initial command such as MySQL, and we’ll get a list of the commands that start with MySQL.