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I’ve been using Linux distribution for some time and along the way I found out few neat little trick that help me work with terminal efficiently.

Shortcut	Function
Ctrl + l	Clear the terminal screen, similar to clear command.
Ctrl + d	Close the shell, similar to exit command.
Ctrl + a	Move cursor to the beginning of the line.
Ctrl + e	Move cursor to the back end of the command.
Ctrl + u	Delete all character before the cursor, similar to BACKSPACE.
Ctrl + k	Delete all character after the cursor.
Ctrl + Left / Right Arrow	Move cursor to the start and end of the word.
Ctrl + c	Interrupt or stop the current running process in the terminal.
Ctrl + z	Suspend or pause the current running process in the terminal. Use `bg %1` to resume the process.
Ctrl + p	Similar to Up Arrow, go to the previous command in the command history.
Ctrl + n	Similar to Down Arrow, go to the next command in the command history.
Ctrl + r	Search for bash history in reverse, find the desired command, press ENTER ro run it.
Ctrl + g	Leave the history searching mode and clear the line.
! +	Run the last command that you typed, e.g: `!sudo`. Careful when using this because you don’t know exactly how the command was executed.
! + + :p	Append `:p` and bash will print out the command to the terminal without running it. This is useful to confirm that you’ve selected the correct command before running it.