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Developers and programmers use the terminal quite often. Here we present some basic terminal shortcuts which will save a lot of your time and help you execute commands faster.

Shortcut keys to manage the terminal:

1) Alt + F10 = maximize

2) Alt + F5  =  restore

3) Ctrl + Shift + t = open new tab in the terminal

4) F11 = Enable or disable full screen

5) Ctrl + Shift + + = Zoom in

6) Ctrl +  -  = Zoom out

7) Ctrl + 0 = Normal Size

8) Ctrl + Shift + n = opens a new terminal window

1) Ctrl + a = Move to the beginning of the line

2) Ctrl + e = Move to the end of the line

3) Ctrl + b = Move one char back

4) Ctrl + f = Move the one char forward

5) Ctrl + c = Kill the current command in the terminal

6) Ctrl + m = Execute the command without pressing enter

7) Ctrl + P = Display the previous command

8) Ctrl + n = Display the next command

1) pwd : To see the current working directory

2) ls : To list the files and directories

3) ls -l : To list files along with attributes and file permissions

4) ls -a : List the files along with hidden files (In Linux all the hidden files starts with .(dot))

5) tree : To see the directory information in tree structure

1) ll i* : To display all the files that start with i character.

2) ll *log* : To list the files having log characters 5 char file

3) ll *c* : To list the files containing c in them

4) ll *.c  : To list the files with .c extension only

5) ll [a-m]* : To list the files having filename beginning with characters from a to m

6) Ctrl + l or clear : To clear the screen