Useful Terminal Shortcuts for Mac

Enhance your terminal productivity with these shortcuts

Terminals are an integral and important part of a developer’s day to day life. Keyboard shortcuts in terminal help you to be fast and productive 🚀

Also mousepad, nay ❌

List of Common shortcuts I use

• Creating new split pane

  • Vertically: ⌘+d

  • Horizontally: ⌘+⌥+d

• Navigating among tabs

  • ⌘+left arrow or ⌘-{

  • ⌘+right arrow or ⌘-}

• Navigating directly to a tab

  • ⌘+number

• Navigating directly to a window

  • ⌘+⌥+number

• Navigating among split panes

  • ⌘+⌥+Arrow

• Navigating among split panes in order of use

  • ⌘+] and ⌘+[

• Delete from the cursor to the start of the line.

  • Ctrl + U

• Delete from the cursor to the end of the line

  • Ctrl + K

• Delete from the cursor to the start of the preceding word -

  • Ctrl + W

• Delete from the cursor to the end of the next word.

  • Alt + D

• Clear the terminal (Most used 😅)

  • ⌘ + L

• Search history quickly

  • Ctrl + R