Some shortcuts used in the terminal are shown below.

Keystroke Action
CTRL-B Move the cursor left
CTRL-F Move the cursor right
CTRL-P View the previous command (or move the cursor up)
CTRL-N View the next command (or move the cursor down)
CTRL-A Move the cursor to the beginning of the line
CTRL-E Move the cursor to the end of the line
CTRL-W Erase the preceding word
CTRL-U Erase from cursor to beginning of line
CTRL-K Erase from cursor to end of line
CTRL-Y Paste erased text (for example, from CTRL-U)
ALT-B Move the cursor one word to the left
ALT-F Move the cursor one word to the right
ALT-T Replace the word with the previous word
CTRL-T Replace the character with the previous character
ALT-U Make the word uppercase
ALT-L Makes the word lowercase
CTRL-S Pause output
CTRL-Q Resume paused output
CTRL-Z Suspend and stop
fg (foreground) Brings the background process to the foreground