terminal.md

Navigating The Linux System From The Keyboard

Navigating the Linux system is quite intresting and gives you the feeling of a proffessional and this experience can be enhanced with accurate knowledge of the key board shortcuts

Using "Ctrl Key"

Ctrl + Alt +T laucnch the terminal Ctrl + C This iis used to stop the current command or process that is running

Ctrl + Z this is used to put to sleep a runing program

Ctrl + L This is used for clearing the terminal

Ctrl + A Moving the cursor to the start of the line (while on the terminal as this has a different function in visual studio) Also used to select all items or text

Ctrl + E This is used to move the cursor to the end of the line

Ctrl + D Closing the shell (exit)

Ctrl + U Cutting (removing) the curent line

Ctrl + T Used to open a new tab on a browser

Ctrl shift + This is used to zoom in hence increasing the size of charaters and images on your screen

Ctrl, Shift - This is to zoom out

Ctrl + shift + C Useful for copying on the terminal

Ctrl + shift + V Useful for pasting on the terminal

Ctrl + O This is used to save ( saving contents of a doc in nano)

Ctrl + X This is used to exit different modes eg on a text editor like nano

Ctrl + shift + F This is to search for specific words in the for eaxaple when using the man command

Using The "Tab Key"

```Tab`` autocompletes the command or file if it is unique

Tab Tab Pressing the Tab key twice displays all commands or filenames that start with those letters

Ctrl+ Tab Used to move to the next open Tab on a browser

Using "Alt Key"

Alt + 1 To move to the first Tab on a terminal

Using the " Windows Key or the Super Key"