PuTTy keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
Printable cheat sheet covering all 28 PuTTy 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.
All shortcuts
- 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 — Move between end-of-line and current cursor position
- Ctrl+Z — Suspend or stop the command
- Alt+ArrowLeft — Move to the first line in the history
- Alt+ArrowRight — Move to the last line in the history
- Alt+Slash — Attempt to complete filename
- Alt+Period — 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
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