Keyboard shortcuts for Ubuntu

You know, if your job requires you to be working on a computer throughout each standard 8-hour workday, then using keyboard shortcuts can save you 8 entire workdays every year. This is equal to 3.3% of your total productivity!

That's why in this article I’ve brought you a whole lot of them just to make your work faster. Hope the following helps you!

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 the above combination, you can open the terminal tab in the 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 commands, we can use the 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 the 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 on 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 the line after the 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 the above shortcut to move to the 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 => Minimise
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 the 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.