Bash & Zsh Terminal Shortcuts Cheat Sheet

Essential terminal keyboard shortcuts to speed up CLI productivity on Linux, macOS, and WSL.

Cursor Navigation

Move cursor to beginning of the lineCtrl + A

Move cursor to end of the lineCtrl + E

Move cursor forward one wordAlt + F / Esc + F

Move cursor backward one wordAlt + B / Esc + B

Clear terminal screen (equivalent to clear command)Ctrl + L

Cut everything from cursor to the start of lineCtrl + U

Cut everything from cursor to the end of lineCtrl + K

Paste previously cut textCtrl + Y

Reverse interactive search through past command historyCtrl + R

Repeat the last executed command (e.g. sudo !!)!!

• How do I run the previous command with sudo?

Type sudo !! and press Enter. The exclamation marks automatically expand to the last executed command in Bash/Zsh.