PuTTy keyboard shortcuts
Explore all 28 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys for PuTTy 2025 on an interactive visual keyboard. Toggle modifiers (Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Meta), filter by category, and search any command or key combination.
Top 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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