PuTTY keyboard shortcuts 

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Zeynel -
7 years ago
- Shortcuts
5
Tab

Auto-complete file and folder names

6
Ctrl + W

Delete the word before cursor

1
Ctrl + K

Clear the line after cursor

3
Ctrl + T

Swap the last two characters before the cursor

0
Esc + T

Swap the last two words before the cursor

9
Alt + F

Move cursor forward one word on the current line

4
Alt + B

Move cursor backward one word on the current line

8
Ctrl + A

Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on

9
Ctrl + E

Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on

1
Ctrl + L

Clear the screen (similar to the clear command)

7
Ctrl + U

Clear the line before the cursor position. If you are at the end of the line, clears the entire line

3
Ctrl + H

Same as backspace

-3
Ctrl + R

Search through previously used commands

2
Ctrl + C

Kill whatever you are running

4
Ctrl + D

Exit the current shell

7
Ctrl + Z

Put whatever you are running into a suspended background process. Type fg to restore it

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1
Alt + <

Move to the first line in the history

-2
Alt + >

Move to the last line in the history

0
Alt + ?

Show current completion list

1
Alt + *

Insert all possible completions

0
Alt + /

Attempt to complete filename

1
Alt + .

Yank last argument to previous command

2
Alt + B

Move backward

0
Alt + C

Capitalize the word

1
Alt + D

Delete word

0
Alt + F

Move forward

0
Alt + L

Make word lowercase

-1
Alt + U

Make word uppercase

2
Alt + N

Search the history forwards non-incremental

1
Alt + P

Search the history backwards non-incremental

1
Alt + R

Recall command

2
Alt + T

Move words around

0
Alt + Backspace

Delete backward from cursor

3
Esc then U

Undo last command


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Program information

Program name: PuTTY PuTTY (File manager)

Web page: http://www.putty.org

Last update: 2020/11/14 12:32 UTC

How easy to press shortcuts: 78%

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Updated: Added some shortcuts. (2 updates.) 2020/11/14 12:31:14 Added some shortcuts.
2020/11/14 12:31:41 Added some shortcuts.

Shortcut count: 34

Platform detected: Windows or Linux

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