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PuTTY keyboard shortcuts
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First published at 10/30/2017 on https://defkey.com/putty-shortcuts

PuTTY is a free terminal editor and network file transfer application. It
comes with SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin support and raw socket connection
support. PuTTY was originally developed for Windows but it has been ported
to other platforms.

PuTTY has 34 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below.



Ctrl key bound
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Tab                     Auto-complete file and folder names
Ctrl + W                Delete the word before cursor
Ctrl + K                Clear the line after cursor
Ctrl + T                Swap the last two characters before the cursor
Esc + T                 Swap the last two words before the cursor
Alt + F                 Move cursor forward one word on the current line
Alt + B                 Move cursor backward one word on the current line
Ctrl + A                Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on
Ctrl + E                Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on
Ctrl + L                Clear the screen (similar to the clear command)
Ctrl + U                Clear the line before the cursor position. If you are at the end of the
line, clears the entire line
Ctrl + H                Same as backspace
Ctrl + R                Search through previously used commands
Ctrl + C                Kill whatever you are running
Ctrl + D                Exit the current shell
Ctrl + Z                Put whatever you are running into a suspended background process. Type fg
to restore it


Alt key bound
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Alt + <                 Move to the first line in the history
Alt + >                 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 + U                 Make word uppercase
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 + Backspace         Delete backward from cursor


Misc
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Esc then U              Undo last command

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