most-used and must-known shortkey for terminal on ubuntu Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Ubuntu shortkey in terminal

ctrl+a or Home

Moves the cursor to the start of a line.

ctrl+e or End
Moves the cursor to the end of a line.

ctrl+b
Moves to the beginning of the previous or current word.

ctrl+k
Deletes from the current cursor position to the end of the line.

ctrl+u
Deletes the whole of the current line.

ctrl+w
Deletes the word before the cursor.