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PuTTy

A visual cheat-sheet for the 32 keyboard shortcuts found on the PuTTy app

#Keyboard Shortcuts

#General Shortcuts

Shortcut Action
Ctrl (right click) Open context menu
Ctrl A Jump to the start of the line
Ctrl B Move back a character
Ctrl C Terminal the command
Ctrl D Delete from under the cursor
Ctrl E Jump to the end of the line
Ctrl F Move forward a character
Ctrl K Delete to end-of-line
Ctrl L Clear the screen
Ctrl R Search the history backwards
Ctrl Shift R Search the history backwards with multi occurrence
Ctrl U Delete backward from cursor
Ctrl X X Move between end-of-line and current cursor position
Ctrl X @ Show possible hostname completions
Ctrl Z Suspend or stop the command
Alt Left Move to the first line in the history
Alt Right Move to the last line in the history
Alt ? Show current completion list
Alt * Insert all possible completions
Alt / Attempt to complete filename
Alt . Yank last argument to previous command
Alt B Move backward
Alt C Capitalize the word
Alt D Delete word
Alt F Move forward
Alt L Make word lowercase
Alt N Search the history forwards non-incremental
Alt P Search the history backwards non-incremental
Alt R Recall command
Alt T Move words around
Alt U Make word uppercase
Alt Backspace Delete backwards from the cursor

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