Command Line Course

Keyboard Shortcuts

Ctrl+C: Interrupt (kill) the current foreground process running in the terminal. This sends the SIGINT signal to the process, which is technically just a request—most processes will honour it, but some may ignore it.
Ctrl+Z: Suspend the current foreground process running in bash. This sends the SIGTSTP signal to the process. To return the process to the foreground later, use the fg process_name command.
Ctrl+D: Close the bash shell. This sends an EOF (End-of-file) marker to bash, and bash exits when it receives this marker. This is similar to running the exit command.
Ctrl+L: Clear the screen. This is similar to running the “clear” command.
Tab: Auto-complete files and folder names.
Ctrl+Shift+C: Copy text from the terminal window.
Ctrl+Shift+V: Paste text to the terminal window.