You can cut and paste text through the killing and yanking features provided by the bash shell.

Killing Text Forward

We can use Ctrl K to cut the text behind the cursor:

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Ctrl + K    # press Control and K keys

Killing Text Backward

We can use Ctrl U to cut the text before the cursor:

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Ctrl + U    # press Control and K keys

We can use Alt D to cut the word on or after the cursor:

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Alt + D    # press Alternate and D keys

We can use Ctrl W or Alt Backspace to cut the word before the cursor:

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Ctrl + W    # press Control and W keys

Or:

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Alt + Backspace    # press Alternate and Backspace keys

We can use Ctrl Y to pull the killed word or text back from the kill ring.

We use either of the kill commands to demonstrate:

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Ctrl + W    # press Control and W keys

We run the following command to pull killed word back:

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Ctrl + Y    # press Control and Y keys

References 8.4.4 Killing And Yanking