Berikut ini adalah beberapa shortcut yang sering dipakai dalam memudahkan pekerjaan kita ketika menggunakan terminal ubuntu.
| Ctrl-a | Move to the start of the line. |
| Ctrl-e | Move to the end of the line. |
| Alt-] x | Moves the cursor forward to the next occurrence of x. |
| Alt-Ctrl-] x | Moves the cursor backwards to the previous occurrence of x. |
| Ctrl-u | Delete from the cursor to the beginning of the line. |
| Ctrl-k | Delete from the cursor to the end of the line. |
| Ctrl-w | Delete from the cursor to the start of the word. |
| Ctrl-y | Pastes text from the clipboard. |
| Ctrl-l | Clear the screen leaving the current line at the top of the screen. |
| Ctrl-x Ctrl-u | Undo the last changes. Ctrl-_ |
| Alt-r | Undo all changes to the line. |
| Alt-Ctrl-e | Expand command line. |
| Ctrl-r | Incremental reverse search of history. |
| Alt-p | Non-incremental reverse search of history. |
| !! | Execute last command in history |
| !abc | Execute last command in history beginning with abc |
| !n | Execute nth command in history |
| ^abc^xyz | Replace first occurrence of abc with xyz in last command and execute it |