PuTTY Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet

A visual cheat sheet for 32 keyboard shortcuts in the PuTTY application.

General Shortcuts

Action	Mac Shortcut	Win Shortcut
Open context menu	`Cmd` + `(Right Click)`	`Ctrl` + `(Right Click)`
Jump to start of line	`Cmd` + `A`	`Ctrl` + `A`
Move back one character	`Cmd` + `B`	`Ctrl` + `B`
Terminal command	`Cmd` + `C`	`Ctrl` + `C`
Delete character under cursor	`Cmd` + `D`	`Ctrl` + `D`
Jump to end of line	`Cmd` + `E`	`Ctrl` + `E`
Move forward one character	`Cmd` + `F`	`Ctrl` + `F`
Delete to end of line	`Cmd` + `K`	`Ctrl` + `K`
Clear screen	`Cmd` + `L`	`Ctrl` + `L`
Search history backward	`Cmd` + `R`	`Ctrl` + `R`
Search history backward for multiple occurrences	`Cmd` + `Shift` + `R`	`Ctrl` + `Shift` + `R`
Delete backward from cursor	`Cmd` + `U`	`Ctrl` + `U`
Move between end of line and current cursor position	`Cmd` + `X` + `X`	`Ctrl` + `X` + `X`
Show possible hostname completions	`Cmd` + `X` + `@`	`Ctrl` + `X` + `@`
Pause or stop command	`Cmd` + `Z`	`Ctrl` + `Z`
Move to first line of history	`Alt` + `Left`	`Alt` + `Left`
Move to last line of history	`Alt` + `Right`	`Alt` + `Right`
Show current completion list	`Alt` + `?`	`Alt` + `?`
Insert all possible completions	`Alt` + `*`	`Alt` + `*`
Attempt filename completion	`Alt` + `/`	`Alt` + `/`
Copy last argument to previous command	`Alt` + `.`	`Alt` + `.`
Move backward	`Alt` + `B`	`Alt` + `B`
Capitalize word	`Alt` + `C`	`Alt` + `C`
Delete word	`Alt` + `D`	`Alt` + `D`
Move forward	`Alt` + `F`	`Alt` + `F`
Lowercase word	`Alt` + `L`	`Alt` + `L`
Non-incremental search history forward	`Alt` + `N`	`Alt` + `N`
Non-incremental search history backward	`Alt` + `P`	`Alt` + `P`
Recall command	`Alt` + `R`	`Alt` + `R`
Move word	`Alt` + `T`	`Alt` + `T`
Uppercase word	`Alt` + `U`	`Alt` + `U`
Delete backward from cursor	`Alt` + `Backspace`	`Alt` + `Backspace`