Terminal keyboard shortcut question

Hello. I'm asking this question on behalf of a tech who works in our school. He would like to know what the keyboard shortcut on a Mac is to take you to the end of a line or the beginning of a line. (Apparently on a pc it is the home and end keys but on the Mac that takes him back to the very start of to the very end.) Sorry if this is a silly question.
Jenny

The standard keys to move to end of line is Ctrl-E.
Ctrl-A will take you to the beginning of the line
Other useful control characters include Ctrl-T (transpose two characters) and Ctrl-U (erase line)

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