Cisco IOS Keyboard Shortcuts



Keystrokes

Function Summary

Function Details

ESC+ B

Back one word

Moves the cursor back one word.

ESCF

Forward one word

Moves the cursor forward one word.

CTRL+A

Beginning of line

Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line.

CTRL+B

or

Left Arrow

Back character

Moves the cursor one character to the left.
When you enter a command that extends beyond a single line, you can press the Left Arrow or Ctrl-B keys repeatedly to scroll back toward the system prompt and verify the beginning of the command entry, or you can press the Ctrl-A key combination.

CTRL+F

or

Right Arrow

Forward character

Moves the cursor one character to the right.

CTRL+C

Clear line

Clears all characters on the present command line.

CTRL+D

Deletes character

Deletes the character to the left of the cursor.

CTRL+E

End of line

Moves the cursor to the end of the command line.

CTRL+H

Backspace character to the left

Moves the cursor one character to the left.

CTRL+I

Refresh line and go to end

Redisplays the current command line and goes to the end of the line.

CTRL+J

Return

Sends the [Return/Enter] key.

CTRL+K

Deletes everything on the right of the cursor

Deletes all the characters from the current cursor position to the end of the line.

CTRL+L

or

CTRL+R

Refresh line

Redisplays the current command line.

CTRL+M

Return

Sends the [Return/Enter] key.

CTRL+N

or

Down Arrow

Next command

Displays next command.

CTRL+P

or

Up Arrow

Previous command

Displays previous command.

CTRL+T

Flip last 2 characters

Switches the current character with the character to the left of the cursor.

CRTL+U

Delete line

Clear line and put in buffer.

CRTL+V

or

ESC+Q

Allows a Control Character

Allows A Control Character To Be Typed.

CTRL+W

Erases one word

Delete word backwards and put in buffer.

CTRL+X

Deletes back line

Clear Line to the Left and Put in Buffer.

CTRL+Y

Paste recent deleted character

Pastes the most recently deleted characters to the current cursor position (Paste buffer contents).

CTRL+Z

Back out from config mode

Takes you back to Privileged EXEC Mode. E.g ., if you are in Global Config Mode Router(config)# and press CTRL+Z it will take you back to Router# mode.

ESC+C

Capitalize character

Capitalize at the cursor.

ESC+D

Delete characters

Delete from the cursor to the end of the word.

ESC+L

Change word to lowercase

Change the word at the cursor to lowercase.

ESC+U

Capitalize characters

Capitalize letters from the cursor to the end of the word.

ESC+Y

Previous buffer item

Recalls the last buffer entry.

TAB

Completion

It completes a partially typed CLI command. E.g if you type “show run” and press TAB, it will complete the command as “show running-config“.

CTRL+ SHIFT+6

Break

Send ‘Break’.

CTRL+SHIFT+6+X

Exit

Exits from present session, returning to primary session.