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.

Answer 1

Hit Ctrl k. Here are some commonly used shortcuts

CTRL Key Bound

Ctrl + a - Jump to the start of the line
Ctrl + b - Move back a char
Ctrl + c - Terminate the command
Ctrl + d - Delete from under the cursor
Ctrl + e - Jump to the end of the line
Ctrl + f - Move forward a char
Ctrl + k - Delete to EOL
Ctrl + l - Clear the screen
Ctrl + r - Search the history backwards
Ctrl + R - Search the history backwards with multi occurrence
Ctrl + u - Delete backward from cursor
Ctrl + xx - Move between EOL and current cursor position
Ctrl + x @ - Show possible hostname completions
Ctrl + z - Suspend/ Stop the command

ALT Key Bound

Alt + < - Move to the first line in the history
Alt + > - Move to the last line in the history
Alt + ? - Show current completion list
Alt + * - Insert all possible completions
Alt + / - Attempt to complete filename
Alt + . - 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 + back-space - Delete backward from cursor