The following keyboard shortcuts are incredibly useful and will save you loads of time:

CTRL + U - Cuts text up until the cursor.

CTRL + K - Cuts text from the cursor until the end of the line

CTRL + Y - Pastes text

CTRL + E - Move cursor to end of line

CTRL + A - Move cursor to the beginning of the line

ALT + F - Jump forward to next space

ALT + B - Skip back to previous space

ALT + Backspace - Delete previous word

CTRL + W - Cut word behind cursor

Shift + Insert - Pastes text into terminal

Just so that the commands above make sense look at the next line of text.

sudo apt-get intall programname

As you can see I have a spelling error and for the command to work I would need to change "intall" to "install".

Imagine the cursor is at the end of the line. There are various ways to get back to the word install to change it.

I could press ALT + B twice which would put the cursor in the following position (denoted by the ^ symbol):

sudo apt-get^intall programname

Now you could press the cursor key and insert the ''s' into install.

Another useful command is "shift + insert" especially If you need to copy text from a browser into the terminal.

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