how to delete all characters after cursor in shell

Question

I want to delete all characters after cursor in putty or shell. How can i achieve this?

Every time I want to delete the complete line, I need to press delete key and that is something I don't want to do.

Finding a way to delete the line improve my speed and effieciency.

e.g

 $@ java -DSTOP.PORT=8982 -DSTOP.KEY=mysecret -jar start.jar --stop

@ is my cursor position so if I have to delete the line I have to keep pressing the delete key.

score 65 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 07 '16 at 03:03

Hit Ctrl k. Here are some commonly used shortcuts

CTRL Key Bound

ALT Key Bound

@jaypalsingh CTRL k will delete the entire line (from start of line to end of line). They want to delete from the cursor location to the end of line. — Antoine Dahan, Feb 06 '21 at 02:47

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 02 '16 at 13:20

I know it's an old question, but if you like/work with vi editor, you can use:

$ set -o vi

That allows you treat the input as inside the vim editor (insert mode):

Delete to the end of line <ESC>D,
Edit entire command line inside a vim session <ESC>v (exiting vim executes command)
Search in last commands <ESC>/regexp_to_find,
Go to start of line <ESC>0,
Insert at start of line <ESC>I,
Change next word <ESC>cw
Etc.

This is one of many vim tutorials.

2 Answers2