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: Clears the Screen, similar to the clear command

Ctrl + U: Clears 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: Let's you search through previously used commands

Ctrl + C: Kill whatever you are running

Ctrl + D: Exit the current shell

Ctrl + Z: Puts whatever you are running into a suspended background process. fg restores it.

Ctrl + W: Delete the word before the cursor

Ctrl + K: Clear the line after the 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

Tab: Auto-complete files and folder names

from http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/keyboard-shortcuts-for-bash-command-shell-for-ubuntu-debian-suse-redhat-linux-etc/