Ctrl-a Move to the start of the line. Ctrl-e Move to the end of the line. Ctrl-] x Moves the cursor forward to the next occurrence of x. Alt-Ctrl-] x Moves the cursor backwards to the previous occurrence of x. Ctrl-u Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line. Ctrl-k Delete from the cursor to the end of the line. Ctrl-w Delete from the cursor to the start of the word. Ctrl-y Pastes text from the clipboard. Ctrl-l Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen. Ctrl-x Ctrl-u Undo the last changes. Ctrl-_ Alt-r Undo all changes to the line. Alt-Ctrl-e Expand command line. Ctrl-r Incremental reverse search of history. Alt-p Non-incremental reverse search of history. !! Execute last command in history !abc Execute last command in history beginning with abc !n Execute nth command in history ^abc^xyz Replace first occurrence of abc with xyz in last command and execute it