Ctrl-A

Move to beginning of line.

Ctrl-B

Move backward one character.

Ctrl-D

Delete one character forward.

Ctrl-E

Move to end of line.

Ctrl-F

Move forward one character.

Ctrl-G

Abort the current editing command and ring the terminal bell.

Ctrl-J

Same as Return.

Ctrl-K

Delete (kill) forward to end of line.

Ctrl-L

Clear screen and redisplay the line.

Ctrl-M

Same as Return.

Ctrl-N

Next line in command history.

Ctrl-O

Same as Return, then display next line in history file.

Ctrl-P

Previous line in command history.

Ctrl-R

Search backward.

Ctrl-S

Search forward.

Ctrl-T

Transpose two characters.

Ctrl-U

Kill backward from point to the beginning of line.

Ctrl-V

Make the next character typed verbatim.

Ctrl-V Tab

Insert a Tab.

Ctrl-W

Kill the word behind the cursor, using whitespace as the boundary.

Ctrl-X/

List the possible filename completions of the current word.

Ctrl-X~

List the possible username completions of the current word.

Ctrl-X $

List the possible shell variable completions of the current word.

Ctrl-X@

List the possible hostname completions of the current word.

Ctrl-X!

List the possible command name completions of the current word.

Ctrl-X(

Begin saving characters into the current keyboard macro.

Ctrl-X)

Stop saving characters into the current keyboard macro.

Ctrl-Xe

Re-execute the last keyboard macro defined.

Ctrl-X Ctrl-R

Read in the contents of the readline initialization file.

Ctrl-X Ctrl-V

Display version information on this instance of bash.

Ctrl-Y

Retrieve (yank) last item killed.

Delete

Delete one character backward.

Ctrl-[

Same as Esc (most keyboards).

Esc-B

Move one word backward.

Esc-C

Change word after point to all capital letters.

Esc-D

Delete one word forward.

Esc-F

Move one word forward.

Esc-L

Change word after point to all lowercase letters.

Esc-N

Nonincremental forward search.

Esc-P

Nonincremental reverse search.

Esc-R

Undo all the changes made to this line.

Esc-T

Transpose two words.

Esc-U

Change word after point to all uppercase letters.

Esc-Ctrl-E

Perform shell alias, history, and word expansion on the line.

Esc-Ctrl-H

Delete one word backward.

Esc-Ctrl-Y

Insert the first argument to the previous command (usually the second word) at point.

Esc-Delete

Delete one word backward.

Esc-^

Perform history expansion on the line.

Esc-<

Move to first line of history file.

Esc->

Move to last line of history file.

Esc-.

Insert last word in previous command line after point.

Esc-_

Same as above.

Tab

Attempt filename completion on current word.

Esc-?

List the possible completions of the text before point.

Esc-/

Attempt filename completion on current word.

Esc-~

Attempt username completion on current word.

Esc-$

Attempt variable completion on current word.

Esc-@

Attempt hostname completion on current word.

Esc-!

Attempt command name completion on current word.

Esc-Tab

Attempt completion from text in the command history.

Esc-~

Attempt tilde expansion on the current word.

Esc-

Delete all the spaces and Tabs around point.

Esc-*

Insert all of the completions that would be generated by Esc-= before point.

Esc-=

List the possible completions before point.

Esc-{

Attempt filename completion and return the list to the shell enclosed within braces.