PuTTy Quick Dev Reference

A visual cheat-sheet for the 32 keyboard shortcuts found on the PuTTy app.

Keyboard Shortcuts

General Shortcuts

Ctrl (right click) — Open context menu

Ctrl A — Jump to the start of the line

Ctrl B — Move back a character

Ctrl C — Terminal the command

Ctrl D — Delete from under the cursor

Ctrl E — Jump to the end of the line

Ctrl F — Move forward a character

Ctrl K — Delete to end-of-line

Ctrl L — Clear the screen

Ctrl R — Search the history backwards

Ctrl Shift R — Search the history backwards with multi occurrence

Ctrl U — Delete backward from cursor

Ctrl X X — Move between end-of-line and current cursor position

Ctrl X @ — Show possible hostname completions

Ctrl Z — Suspend or stop the command

Alt Left — Move to the first line in the history

Alt Right — 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 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 U — Make word uppercase

Alt Backspace — Delete backwards from the cursor